You can restore the Virtual I/O Server base
code, applied fix packs, custom device drivers to support disk subsystems,
and some user-defined metadata from one or more DVDs.
If the system is managed by the Integrated Virtualization Manager,
then you need to restore your partition profile data for the management partition
and its clients before you restore the Virtual I/O Server.
For instructions, see Backing up and restoring partition data. (Alternatively,
you can use the rstprofdata command.)
To restore the Virtual I/O Server from
a one or more DVDs, follow these steps:
- Specify the Virtual I/O Server partition
to boot from the DVD by using the bootlist command.
Alternatively, you can alter the bootlist in the System Management Services
(SMS).
- Insert the DVD into the optical drive.
- From the SMS menu, select to install from the optical drive.
- Follow the installation steps according to the system prompts.
- If you restored the Virtual I/O Server to
a different system from which it was backed up, then you need to restore the
user-defined virtual devices. For instructions, see Restoring user-defined
virtual devices.
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