I was collecting a list of WWPNs for a bunch of new AIX LPARs I was installing from scratch. There were two ways I could find the WWPN for a virtual Fibre Channel adapter on a new LPAR i.e. one that did not yet have an operating system installed.   I started by checking the LPAR properties from the HMC (as shown below).       To speed things up I moved to the HMC command line tool, lssyscfg , to display the WWPNs (as shown below).   hscroot@hmc1:~> lssyscfg -r prof -m 750-2 -F virtual_fc_adapters --filter lpar_names=lpar1... [More]

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