Recently I provided an article on configuring SSP (Shared Storage Pool) on the VIOS. In this article, we’re going to take an active LPAR (VIOC) and have all of the PVs migrated over to use SSP. This will allow us to do live partition mobility from one VIOS to another. In this case here, the…
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AIX and sparse files
Recently I had to copy around 13GB of data from one system over to another. However, after copying the files across and running a du on the file folder it was quite different in size. The target folder was showing as being over 16GB for the same data. Delving further into the file structure coupled…
Adding Shared Storage pool to VIOS
Pre-Requisites: * Vios version 2.2.0.11 SP6+ * FQDN on the VIOS servers * no virtual optical devices (remove prior to migrating) * FQDN & short name in /etc/hosts * update /etc/netsvc.conf to have hosts=local,bind so that local is checked prior to DNS * same vlan ID on all of the VIOS machines (this is accessible…