Recently I provided an article on configuring SSP (Shared Storage Pool) on the VIOS. In this article, we’re going to take an active LPAR (VIOC) and have all of the PVs migrated over to use SSP. This will allow us to do live partition mobility from one VIOS to another. In this case here, the…
Category: VIOS
Adding Shared Storage pool to VIOS
Pre-Requisites: * Vios version 2.2.0.11 SP6+ * FQDN on the VIOS servers * no virtual optical devices (remove prior to migrating) * FQDN & short name in /etc/hosts * update /etc/netsvc.conf to have hosts=local,bind so that local is checked prior to DNS * same vlan ID on all of the VIOS machines (this is accessible…
RBAC and VIOS
Using RBAC (Role Based Access Controls) within AIX (and forced in VIOS) I discovered it was a bit of a pain to NOT have the ability to do everything as the padmin user. Typically you can add yourself to have a role (or some roles) which you can swap into. However, this can be a…