Re: Can a standard i5/OS V7R1 LPAR be migrated/converted to a client NWS LPAR?

As Rob suggested you can use multiple hosts but I would only do that transitionally *OR* if I really wanted to have storage mirrored between two hosts. Uses a lot of disk but gives (in theory at least) a bit of extra redundancy.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 1/12/2015 12:19 PM, Steinmetz, Paul wrote:

Larry,

I currently have 3 LPARS, 05, 06, 07, all with their own hardware.

This will only work if the new client (08) will be on the same current host (05), which they are not, correct.
In my scenario, the new client (08) will be hosted from a different LPAR (06) then the existing LPAR (05)

Paul

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Subject: Re: Can a standard i5/OS V7R1 LPAR be migrated/converted to a client NWS LPAR?

SAVE and REsTORE (option 21) is the documented 'it works' procedure.

BUT you can also:

Build the host partition.
Create the 'virtual' storage there to host the current 'physical'
partition. (CRTNWSSTG)
Add this 'virtual' storage to the 'physical' partition.
Use live disk migration to move all but the load source 'physical'
storage to 'virtual' storage.
IPL to DST for the load source migration (DEDICATED) Finally IPL to the new 'virtual' load source with a new partition profile.

You might have an outage as low as an hour this way. I have done several of these always successful.

You DO need twice (plus a little) the disk capacity available to pull this off BUT you likely would have that because you wouldn't virtualize unless you intended to build other partitions.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 1/12/2015 8:57 AM, Steinmetz, Paul wrote:

Can a standard i5/OS V7R1 LPAR be migrated/converted to a client NWS LPAR?

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