In order to have Dark RAM/CPU’s lit up, you have to gather some details on them, and send off to the IBM partner (sales) to have them activated. In the case of a “temporary” assignment, you can get it lit up for 30 days (no charge). Otherwise, it would have to be charged and what…
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AIX MPIO Configuration with Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM)
The following settings should be done: 1 chdev -l fcsX -a link_speed=2G (optional) 2 chdev -l fscsiX -a dyntrk=yes -a fc_err_recov=fast_fail 3 chdev -l hdiskX -a reserve_policy=no_reserve 4 chdev -l hdiskX -a hcheck_interval=30 Explanation of the settings: link_speed=2G (hard codes the link speed to 2GB, instead of using auto-negotiate) * dyntrk=yes If Dynamic Tracking of…
Tarball (on-the-fly) coupled with the power of openssh
This little process will create a tarball from a specified directory, then transfer it via ssh and extract it on the fly. The advantage of this method is the tarball is never needed to be created, transferred and then extracted. ( tar -cf – ./ ) | ( ssh user@host ‘mkdir test101 && cd test101…