Re: Host and Guest IBM i Partitions

On Host/Guest control of the Internal DVD. After talking to IBM, IBM i can
act as both a Host and Guest at the same time. So I can place the Internal
Disk/DVD controller in a Guest Partition and the rest of the Guests or the
Primary host could see it.

This Also allows me to place the SSD's attached to that base controller to
be placed in the main Guest partition. this will allow that partition to
see the SSD's as SSD's not just HD's



On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 5:05 AM, Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Kirk, I don't think you can do it that way since without the hosting
partition you couldn't have the storage spaces to create a guest. The
storage spaces will be spread out amongst the disk arms based upon those
that you create. To isolate SSD's and HD's probably a seperate raid set or
asp that when you add the storage space created NWSD you would pick where
to add it to based upon raid controller/asp set. It might be possible to
create NWSD's within another NWSD I guess.

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Kirk Goins <kirkgoins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

OK don't ask why... I know at 7.1, If I have Host IBM i Partition that

owns

among other things the Base Disk Controller, say on a Power720 E4C, A

Guest

IBM i Partition can access the DVD without moving the controller and use
it. Now if I place the Base Disk Controller in the Guest Partition, is

the

reverse true? Can the Host Access the DVD without moving the controller?
Can other IBM i Guests access the DVD without moving the controller.

If I have both HDs and SSDs in the Host IBM i Partition and if I create a
Storage Space for a Guest on a SSD, will the guest know it's an SSD?

Thanks

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