Re: LPAR Classes ?

And a good reason to use IBM's LPAR validation tool.

Rob Berendt
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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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