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Hello Folks I have a question . I have a requirement of segregation of Production and non production environments. We are going to build separate ESXI clusters for Prod and Non Prod . However i am confused in making a decision around Distributed switches ... Should one distributed switch...

Hello I dont know why IBM has changed options in Fix central , but the way it is changed , introduced challenges for end users. For example , my TL/SP was at 6.1-09-01 and when i installed bos.cluster.rte , now it has become 6.1-09.00. That is fine , i know that i have to install...

Guys I did recently a fresh installation of VIO lpars using single path from SAN. VIO lpars are booting well from SAN now. My question is that can i use same FC port which is being used currently for VIO lpars to boot , for booting AIX client lpars using NPIV? In other words can i create...

Guys. i do have a two nodes hacmp cluster with each nodes having only one logical ethernet interface ( etherchannel) The same interface carry boot ip and service ip . Now i want to configure netmon.cf file on both nodes and question is which ip address should i put in netmon.cf file? Should...

Guys I do have two storage pools in a new v7000 and two mdisks ( one mdisk mapped to one storage pool ). Both mdisks are RAID-10 but of different sizes ( 3+3 and 2+2). I do have my DB2 volume ( database plus logs ) on same volume but volume is under IO stress recently with almost 85%...

Guys I am facing an issue with hosts connected to V7000. Although mapped volume is currently accessible from host however when i go to check detailed properties for hosts, FC ports for hosts is showing in degraded status ( though nodes being shown logged in)... Another confusion is about...

Guys I am about to perform a data migration from HP EVA 4400 to V7000. Host servers are HP UX servers, which are not using any additional multipathing software other than built in PVLINK. I do have following questions , as i am doing first time using V7000. Q1. When i will change zoning , as...

Guys I am trying to do a mksysb restore on target Lpar which is almost similar to source Lpar. When i say almost , it means that rootvg disk size is exactly same. When i try to restore through NIM on target Lpar , i am successfull in reaching up to mksysb restoration menus.. meaning that...

Guys I do have a VIO server which is bein installed with SDDPCM for suppoting IBM DS5100.. Now i want to remove it from VIO server as i now know that SDDPCM is not supported on VIO servers with DS50000. Can anybody guide me how should i do that... By the way , what is the output of...

Guys I am much confused about possible usage of SDDPCM on my latest VIO server. The VIo server is running latest version of VIOS and backend disk subsystem is DS5100. Question is that whether i require SDDPCM on VIO server or not? If not , which device driver for DS5100 should i put in VIO...

hi i do have one NIM server ( AIX 6.1 ML02 ) and three NIM clients running at AIX 6.1 ML02. Now i want to know what could be easiest way to update ML02 to ML04 using NIM? I have already downloaded ML04 fixes to /export/nim/ML06 directory on NIM server. What is the way to update existing...

Guys I am planning to do a single VIO configuration on a POWER6 server which has come with 4 port IVE card. I have to implement one production Lpar with two dedicated ethernet ports , but keep flexibility in mind to end up with an infra which can allow more test/dev lpars on same server. For...

Hi All I am currently taking backups from a single backup host onto a VTL ( which has large number of virtual tape drives ). Now in order to reduce backup window for this server, i want to utilize all virtual tape drives at same time. As i am also doing currently manual CA tape copy command...

Guys I do have a scenerio where we have to clone one existing P570 ( POWER5) with dedicated Lpars ( no VIO)to an about to purchase P520 ( POWER 6 ) with virtulaized Lpars. we have decided to go for mksysb restoration technique , but do have following questions: 1, Will there any be issue...

Guys I have one customer who is running HACMP with two pSeries servers using DS4800 storage subsystem Now they have decided to go to DS3950 and ERM to build DR solution. I know ERM works well for most of applications and AIX..however as they are going for one Pseries server at DR site ( no...

Guys, I am implementing TSM 6.1 on Red Hat Linux V5.5 and confused about tape library drivers. My tape library is IBM TS3200. Should i download TS3200 tape drivers for RHEL from IBM website ? or whether TSM default device drivers which come during TSM installation will be enough? I am doing...

Guys I want to migrate my applications from Suse Linux Enterprise server 10 to RHEL V5.3 Is there any smooth tool available for doing that? Most of applications are PHP & mysql based. Will normal tar backup from source system ( application/DB filesystems only) and restore will work or we have...

Guys Can IBM Systems director with Common Agent on AIX 5.3 can be used to monitor in real time hardware/software errors as they appear in AIX error logs? If no ,then is there any alternative way ( beside shell scripting)? I have explored systems Director not in much depth , but it seems to me...

Guys I have configured my BM VTL in CA Arc serv ( r12 SP1 ) and it is showing me as IBM-V3584 library. But problem is that i am getting a tape group of automatically named as "PGROUP0", so i added my VTL and its cartridges in this group destination. There are some issues i am facing ( altough...

Guys, I have a dual VIO setup where two VIO servers are accessing SAN storage ( IBM DS8100 ) through dual ports HBA each. SDDPCM is installed on each VIO servers and they are getting eight paths to each disk. Every thing seems Ok unless i shutdown one of the VIO. SEA faiolver happened...