Recently a new power9 950 was purchased, so it has to be brought into the environment and setup. The specific 950 in question (9040-MR9) is a bit longer than previous versions. This means that things can get quite tight in the back of the server rack, possibly, interfering with the proper closing of the rear…
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AIX or VIOS HBA link failure fix
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…
Using NIM to install a VIOS
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…