I completely concur with everything Jim advised. I too developed my own frequent VIOS command list that contains references to the adjacent IBMi command when applicable. This really helps those heritage IBMi guys who have never operated on a Unix based platform.
As for the VIOS shell and its sensitivity....big pain for me in the beginning too. This is especially true when you are configuring device details for SAN LUNs where the command is 60-70 characters long and not intuitive at all. I found that even if you backspace and correct inaccuracies that PuTTY will still sometimes send garbage characters to the VIOS shell causing commands to fail. For this reason, I suggest using Cygwin as a SSH client instead of PuTTY. Cygwin is much better at passing the command into the VIOS shell and I rarely if ever have those garbage text interpretive issues anymore.
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Oberholtzer
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 8:33 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: VIOS from scratch
VIO Server is a learning curve without a doubt, a steep one. A strong Unix background is really helpful. (all of my partitions are virtualized with VIOS so I deal with it quite often)
The best place to look for help is in DeveloperWorks, and don't forget the AIX forums.
Start a cheat sheet with all the commands you use. Larry suggested, and I followed the suggestion to use Notepad for all the commands you use, setting up the virtual SCSI and other devices. That way you can copy/paste from note pad into PuttY.
One word of warning. The shell is just plain awful. Be sure to set your Putty configuration correctly. Problem is, I have not found anyone (or a website) that can really tell me what those settings should be so I tinker with them until they work.
Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
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On 5/16/2013 7:52 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I, too, wouldn't mind learning more about this.
Rob Berendt
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José Etcheverry Romero <yggdrasil.raiker@xxxxxxxxx> To: Midrange
Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Date:
05/16/2013 08:34 AM Subject: VIOS from scratch Sent by:
midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx I've been mucking around with a nice
POWER6 that we got cheap from IBM-Remarketing a few weeks ago.
Installed VIOS 2.x and got a feel around. I've found some videos
explaining initial configuration, but the config was not exactly the
same (it assumed i had a non-IVE network card and set up the VIOS-HMC
link and general bridge thru that). Is there a good VIOS from scratch
tutorial anywhere? Also, the HMC reports that this machine has no 5250
capabilities, but it DOES have IBM i capabilities. Would that be like
saying "You have a 1000cpw batch and 0 interactive machine"? I've read
a lot of manuals and think i have most of the theory behind VIOS (some
concepts are harder, like the whole IVE-LHEA but not impossible).
Infocenter has not been kind to me since it seems only CE work at this
level (weird since i remember a big client that had its people trained
to reinstall VIOS in case of disaster). That's about it, if anyone has
experience with this, feel free to share. I can be more specific about
the problems i'm having but i would rather read the book than nag
someone. Best Regards,
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