From: Bob.Kelley@BRINKSINC.COM
Date: Thu Apr 08 2004 - 11:30:32 EDT
Dieter, that sounds like a nice, clean solution to me! You should probably
take a look at stopping the SAN agent software running on the p650 before
moving the fibre over. I have had poor luck with reconnections on my EMC
SAN while the agent is up and running bc I asssumed a simple restart of the
agent would work. Then after swapping the cables over, start your agent up.
In my experience, if you still can't see the volumes after starting the
agent and running cfgmgr, even though your node has registered with the
arrray, a reboot is the fix everytime. (Is this AIX or winblows?) =)
If it were me, I would first zone the 650 to the SAN, add a couple volumes,
cfgmgr them, and verify that I can indeed see the SAN correctly. Assuming
that goes well (which means everything is in order device driver wise for
your HBA) you should have no problems moving forward with switching the
cables over and changing the ww names for your new HBA(s).
Please post your results back to us! =)
Bobby Kelley Jr.
972-877-5341
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I have never tried that. We typically use cloning to move our systems over
to new hardware. What OS version are you running? 5.2 is supposed to have
all device support installed from the get go so any new hardware related
filesets that you might need should already be there. One thing I would
wonder about is how it handles a different CPU ID and/or device locations.
When we clone our systems we use a modified bosinst.data file with
recover_devices set to NO. I'm not sure if you would have to do anything
similar to this with what you are trying to do. If you don't mind can you
post something telling us what you ended up doing.
Jason de la Fuente
>>> dieter.zavelberg@POSTBANK.DE 04/08/04 09:29AM >>>
Hi *,
I've a p630 LPAR with all disks (rootvg, xxvg, ...)
located in a SAN (no internal disks!).
I want to "move" that LPAR to a p650 by changing the
WWN zoning, i.e. by removing the p630's FC adapters
from and assigning the p650's FC adapters to the
corresponding LUNs.
Has anyone done that with success (or no success)?
Thx and Reagrds,
Dieter
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