Re: Using NFS to distribute ptfs

Copying from Larry's note:

Using NFS Served Image Catalogs for PTFs only requires IBM i 6.1 or newer.

Using NFS Served Image Catalogs for Upgrades requires IBM I 6.1 or newer
*AND POWER6 or newer hardware.

How can this be more clear? IBM i 6.1 has the software technology for NFS served Image Catalogs and POWER6 has the additional hardware technology for the IPL portion needed for an upgrade. Is there a different question?

V5R4 does not play. You can no longer order it, and I'll guess (absolutely no knowledge of IBMs plans) that end of support will be announced soon, giving a window of another 12 months of support. Then it goes the way of V5R3, no longer supported.


Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 9/28/2011 6:43 AM, Jack Kingsley wrote:

Is this scenario supported on 5.4 or only on 6.1 and up.

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:26 PM, DrFranken<midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> FYI You can do both.
>
> Using NFS Served Image Catalogs for PTFs only requires IBM i 6.1 or newer.
>
> Using NFS Served Image Catalogs for Upgrades requires IBM I 6.1 or newer
> *AND POWER6 or newer hardware.
>
> - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis
>
> On 9/27/2011 2:35 PM, Evan Harris wrote:

> > You mean IPL-ing from an image catalog on NFS instead of image
> > catalogs on local storage ?
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 4:41 AM,<rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >> Came this close to using NFS to distribute PTFs between my various lpars
> >> and machines this week. Couldn't quite get it to work so I opened up a
> >> pmr. Turns out that it can't go out over hardware currently in use.

> For

> >> example if you are using CMN01 for your regular TCP/IP communications
> >> (let's say line LANLINE) you cannot have LANLINE varied on when using

> it.

> >> So you either have to vary the line off (really unpopular when people

> are

> >> using it) or use another resource. Apparently virtual lan is really
> >> popular for inter lpar communications and is one solution that people

> are

> >> using. IBM admitted that the inability to share a resource is one big
> >> bummer in adoption of this method.
> >>
> >> Those of you using NFS for this, am I off base here?
> >>
> >>
> >> Rob Berendt
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