Sometimes in AIX / VIOS you will have one (or more) Fibre Ports that will complain about a Link Failure. AIX/VIOS may record these as an error: 29FA8C20 or 7BFEEA1F. These errors can appear in the case of a configured fibre port adapter OR in the case of an unconfigured one. Typically if it is … Read more
Instead of using DVD or the HMC to install the VIO server, it can be pushed out from the NIM server. To accomplish this, one would want to configure the nim environment first. The steps below are anticipating a VIOS 3.1 version. Download Virtual_IO_Server_3.1.x.x_flash.iso # from IBM ESS Copy flash ISO to the nim server … Read more
Prerequisites: All vios nodes are below 2.2.6.31 (old db standard) Shared Storage Pools are being used Vscsi devices are used (optional) An additional PV disk to install vio 3.1 to Systems managed by a Hardware Management Console SAN drivers disk (if required) NOTE: Vios 3.1 is based on AIX 7.2 TL3, so any NIM servers … Read more