FSR Features and Upgrades - 5.1

PowerHA Tools for IBM i 5.1 is now available for all customers with a current maintenance contract. It has all the features and fixes from prior releases and adds the following:

• 53011: Support for GRS in PowerVS

• 54908: Changes to support IBM i 7.5

• 56361: New command: WRKCLDVOL

• 52509: SETUPFSR changes to control configuration migrations

• 46823: Support for iSCSI devices

• 55079: New command: STRCLDPVM

• 47287: CHKCSE checks if STRTCP is *YES

Upgrading to 5.1 is only recommended from version 4.6 - upgrading from any other build or release will require manually recreating all WRKCSE, WRKCSEDTA and WRKCSECRDL entries. Use the following command to display the build date:

DSPDTAARA DTAARA(QZRDHASM/BUILD)

All the controllers and source LPARs in a cluster must be at the same version (i.e. 5.1). We strongly recommend that they also all be at the same build date. The version and build date is stored in data area QZRDHASM/BUILD.

The 4.6 controllers will support non-cluster source LPARs running at 4.6 or 5.1, which facilitates upgrading source LPARs in stages.

1. Upgrade the controllers to 4.6
2. Ensure no SWCSE commands are in process.
3. End the toolkit subsystem:

   
   ENDSBS QZRDFSR *IMMED

4. Generate a text file with all of the WRKCSE / WRKCSEDTA information:

   
   QZRDHASM/DMPINF ENV(*ALL) EXTDLOGS(*NO)

5. Save the DDD information:

   
   MKDIR '/tmp/ddd46backups'
   QZRDHASM/SAVDDD PATH('/tmp/ddd46backups')

6. On each controller, issue the restore command:

   
   RSTLIB SAVLIB(QZRDHASM) DEV(*SAVF) SAVF(QGPL/QZRDHASM51) MBROPT(*ALL) ALWOBJDIF(*ALL) OMITOBJ((QZRDHASM/*ALL *DTAQ))

7. Update to the most recent Secure Java jar file (not required for PowerVS):
   Download it from here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/jsch/files/jsch.jar/0.1.55/jsch-0.1.55.jar/download
   Place it on all controllers in /QIBM/Qzrdhasm/ssh/
   Then update the links:

   RMVLNK OBJLNK('/QIBM/Qzrdhasm/jsch.jar') 
   ADDLNK NEWLNK('/QIBM/Qzrdhasm/ssh/jsch.jar') OBJ('/QIBM/Qzrdhasm/ssh/jsch-0.1.55.jar') 

8. On each controlling partition issue the setup command:

   
   SETUPFSR NODEROLE(*CTL) MIGRATE(*YES)