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Collecting WWPNs for new Virtual Fibre Channel Adapters
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]
Tags:  wwpn vfc sed lssyscfg aix fibre gibson channel hmc chris virtual |