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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>>

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