Re: LPAR Classes ?

["Urbanek, Marty" <Marty_Urbanek@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have to agree with Vern.

"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"

We had IBM contracted to come out and set up a small 820 with 4 LPARs, but
due to our bureaucracy the machine showed up but the consulting contract was
not approved. 

As the days went by, I finally just started hammering at it myself. It took
a lot of trial and error, and I had to move a few cards around so each
partition had enough hardware to boot. As I recall, getting certain things
wrong (bus and IOP assignments) meant that I had to blow away all the
partitions and start over. 

Probably took me the better part of a week to set up all the LPARs correctly
and install all the OS/400s.

I beat the bean counters by a couple of weeks, compared to waiting for their
signatures. Then I just had IBM check over what I did for an hour or two and
give it an unofficial blessing.

If you have the luxury of having a "lab" type environment then I would say
the class may not be necessary, depending on your tolerance for
experimentation, but if you have a tight schedule and have to get it right
on the first try, then I recommend the class.

-Marty