RE: LPAR issue

[PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We switched a 3490 between 2 machines for a while using the hot
cable-swap method.  However, I don't recommend it as a permanent
thing-- all those pins on the plug; I cringed every time we moved the
cable.

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.nospam.com



>You're probably not SUPPOSED to, but I have switched a
>3590 amongst 3 partitions, just by moving the cable from
>one to the other, hot. It worked like a charm. Devices
>got activated nicely, etc. Of course, that was while at
>the lab in Rochester last year, so problems has lots of
>support  :-)
>>  Joe,
>>
>
>-snip-
>
>>
>>  With expensive high-speed tape drives, there is some savings.  If you
>>  had three RAID controllers in a single enclosure, you could use one for
>>  each of three partitions, rather than purchasing three enclosures.  I
>>  think that you could do Ethernet cards, but why would you want to?  It
>>  would be possible to configure a system to share optical drives, but
>>  generally each partition is configured with one so that you could do a
>>  system load.  This may be a requirement.
>
>-snip-