Recently I’ve had to update an AIX 5.3 over to AIX 6.1. The highest level currently supported by the application is AIX 6.1 TL7 SP4. As I only have AIX 6.1 TL6 DVD media available, and this is for an LPAR running off of a VIOS, there are a couple of steps involved. As I…
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Problem assigning Media Tray to another blade (bladecenter)
A recent issue was discovered when assigning the media tray from one blade to another in an IBM BladeCenter. The problem was after you assigned the media tray to another Blade server, and ran cfgmgr to scan the bus, it wasn’t finding the USB CD-ROM. Trying to plug a USB Flash drive in and scanning…
Create Visual Diagrams showing associations of client to HMC/VIOS
Most of us can keep wiki pages etc up-to-date, however, typically when a manager or someone wants a layout of the VIOS or HMC (and it’s associated LPARs) the website is NOT fully up to date. I found an article about graphviz recently (can’t remember where) and how it can help in this endeavour. Once…