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Re: Sharing DVD drives between partitions

wrote on Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:45:02 GMT:

I have a DVD drive in the CEC I want to share between
partitions. Most of the partitions are not guested. Is there
some way to create it as a virtual so that all partitions can
see it without having to vary off, dynamic lpar, vary on?

If you're not opposed to guesting the DVD to all LPARs, you can
set up 1 vSCSI host in the LPAR that "owns" the DVD device. All
other partitions can have a client vSCSI connection to the vSCSI
host see platters in the DVD drive.

No switching and more than 1 LPAR can access the physical media
in the drive at the same time. However, don't expect great
performance when you do that.


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