A recent issue was discovered when assigning the media tray from one blade to another in an IBM BladeCenter. The problem was after you assigned the media tray to another Blade server, and ran cfgmgr to scan the bus, it wasn’t finding the USB CD-ROM. Trying to plug a USB Flash drive in and scanning … Read more
I encountered an interesting fact recently when attempting to backup a VIOS. The VIO is running off an old Power Series server which has a HMC. Apparently attempting to run the backupios command from within the VIO cli will fail with an error detailing that you don’t have the proper rights. Hence, here is a … Read more
1) Login with padmin under the Integrated Virtualization manager (IVM) 2) On the left under service management, you have the option for backup/restore 3) The backup will be place under /home/padmin/profile.bak 4) Once the board is replaced, login to IVM, and perform a restore from Service Management/Backup/Restore. If you can’t get into the IVM in … Read more