Re: LPAR Classes ?

[Glenn Ericson <Glenn-Ericson@xxxxxxx>]

Just  screwing  around is not a good thing  with cards and resources.  You 
have to  follow  the rules or expect intermittent  failures or less than 
optimum performance from your new system throughout  it tenure.

At 10:47 AM 3/18/2003 -0500, Urbanek, Marty wrote:
> 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
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