Well I decided to finally bite the bullet and do an installation of Ubuntu Server 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) 64-bit Version. First of all (as expected) one would download the .iso file from Ubuntu’s Web Site, then proceed to burn it to a CD, or put it on a USB bootable drive using a tool like…
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Add Physical Drive to an AIX System
Once a physical disk has been added into an AIX system, it has to be imported into AIX so it can be utilized. This is done by running the command cfgmgr. If you have many PVs already, you may wish to get a temporary dump of them first, then run cfgmgr and finally run a…
SAN Migration with AIX Blade Servers
Recently we have implemented a SAN migration for DMX to VMAX. Upon dealing with the IBM Qlogic pass-through switches a few things were determined. First thing of note is the fact that a pass-through fibre switch doesn’t act like a normal fibre switch, as it has no real intelligence. There is no ability to connect…