Installing to an alternate disk on a NIM client from the command line - examples

Here is an examples of performing an installation to an alternate disk on a NIM client from the command line.

The client machine machine1 is a running system with a disk, hdisk2, that is not currently occupied by a volume group.

  • To install this disk with a mksysb resource named 51mksysb enter:
    nim -o alt_disk_install -a source=mksysb -a mksysb=51mksysb \
    -a disk=hdisk2 machine1
  • To clone the rootvg to hdisk2 enter:
    nim -o alt_disk_install -a source=rootvg -a disk=hdisk2 machine1