Use stand-alone diagnostics to create a namespace for an NVMe device.
Procedure
- If you have already booted the system from stand-alone diagnostics and entered the
terminal type, go to step 8.
- Power off the system. For instructions, see Stopping a system.
- Boot the system from stand-alone diagnostics. For information about running stand-alone
diagnostics, see Running the stand-alone hardware
diagnostics.
- From the Welcome to AIX screen, type 1 to select the terminal that
you are using as the system console.
- From the Diagnostics Operating Instructions menu, press Enter to
continue.
- From the Function Selection menu, type 3 to select Task
Selection.
- From the Define Terminal menu, enter a terminal type.
Note: If you are using a remote terminal connection such as PuTTY, use either the VT320 or VT340
terminal emulation.
- From the Task Selection List, select the
NVMe Manager option.
- From the NVMe Manager screen, select the Namespace
Management and Attachment option.
- From the Namespace Management and Attachment screen,
select the Create a Namespace option.
- From the Namespace Create Supported Controllers
window, select the device for which you want to create a namespace.
Note: If the device for which you want to create a namespace is not displayed, the maximum number of
namespaces might already be created and you cannot create any more namespaces.
- From the Create a Namespace screen, enter the desired namespace
size. If you do not know what to enter for the LBA Format and
Attach after Create fields, use the default values.
- From the COMMAND STATUS screen, press F3 (function key
3) to return to the Namespace Management and Attachment screen.
- To create more namespaces, repeat steps 10 through 13. To create the maximum number
of namespaces, repeat steps 10 through 13 until
you cannot create anymore namespaces in step 11.