On an AIX system it is possible for garbage erroneous errors to be written to the error report. Recently it was discovered that AIX was attempting to bring a HBA port up, then generating two errors. The errors in question which are generated are similar to: FCA_ERR12 INFO: Adapter link in dead state during driver…
Category: SAN
Migration steps with ISL on SAN Side
Due to some issues with the way the VG’s were initially laid out, a standard pvmigration isn’t possible with one of the AIX servers we administer. Hence, another possibility is to use the ISL on the SAN side, which basically does a block level copy of the LUNs from one SAN to the other. Some…