Re: LPAR Classes ?

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chuck, I probably know more than enough to be dangerous. When working at 
the Data Performance lab a couple years ago, we regularly mucked about with 
LPARs. Learned it all the hard way, as Al says he did.

I'm going to say, it wasn't all that hard, in a way. But I wouldn't hire me 
right now to set up a critical production system. We could afford to mess 
up a lab system - that was part of our job - I even found a boundary 
condition that caused an LPAR to refuse to start.

So, plan-plan-plan. Know what resources you will have - DASD, memory, 
processors, other hardware. You need a load source for each partition, 
IIRC.You probably need various separate towers for dedicated peripherals.

And save-save-save. I may end up doing an extra partition here sometime, 
but I'll be sure I can recover from a gaff.

So, get some school or get some help. And try to watch someone, of you hire 
it out - once set up, you can probably manage the config on your own pretty 
easily.

Good luck

Vern

At 02:10 PM 3/17/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> Hi Folks,
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> I'm not sure I know much more about LPAR than to be dangerous and we are
> looking to upgrade a 620 to an 810 with LPAR.  Should I be looking at
> attending an LPAR class in Rochester ?
>
> Thanks !
>
> Chuck