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New HMC commands: chnportlogin and lsnportlogin - Login in Virtual Fibre Channel adapters for NPIV client LPARs.
There are two new HMC (V7.7.3.0) commands that can force a client Virtual Fibre Channel adapter to log into a SAN. This should make the life of the AIX and SAN administrator easier, as they will no longer need to install AIX in order for the new VFC adapters to log into the SAN. Although there was an unsupported method* for doing this already (see links below). Nor will the SAN admins need to “blind” zone the WWPNs. There was some indication of this in the latest VIOS FP readme: ... [More]
Tags:  virtual chnportlogin aix gibson lsnportlogin channel npiv adapter chris fibre |
SMS SAN zoning support
Until recently, if you were
configuring a new LPAR with virtual FC adapters you couldn’t force it to log
into the SAN before an operating system (such as AIX) was installed. I’ve
written about this before (see link below). I also offered a way to work around
this issue. https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/cgaix/entry/new_hmc_commands_chnportlogin_and_lsnportlogin_login_in_virtual_fibre_channel_adapters_for_npiv_client_lpars1?lang=en As mentioned in my post, there are
new HMC commands to force a new LPAR to connect... [More]
Tags:  npiv virtual_fibre_channel powervm chris_gibson power_systems aix vios vfc |
Replicated rootvg, ghostdev and NPIV
My team and I have recently
been trying to stream line our AIX disaster recovery process. We’ve been
looking for ways to reduce our overall recovery time. Several ideas were tossed
around such as a) using a standby DR LPAR with AIX already installed and using
rsync/scp to keep the Prod & DR LPARs in sync and b) using alt_disk_copy
(with the –O flag for a device reset) to clone rootvg to an alternate disk
which is then replicated to DR. These methods may work but are cumbersome to
administer and (in the case of alt_disk_copy) require... [More]
Tags:  chris hds recovery led rootvg fc support ghostdev replication lpar hung gibson 554 boot replicated chris_gibson vfc vsp aix san channel virtual fibre dr disaster npiv hang |
Understanding viostat -adapter vfchost output.
The first
time I ran the ’ viostat –adapter’ command I expected to find
non-zero values for kbps , tps , etc, for each vfchost adapter. However, the values were always zero, no matter
how much traffic traversed the adapters.
$ viostat
-adapter 1 10
... vadapter: Kbps tps
bkread ... [More]
Tags:  virtual vios powervm channel vfchost aix fibre viostat vfc -adapter npiv |