Re: VIOS from scratch -- MIDRANGE-L

My experience has all been on a JS12 Blade but I would think there are many similarities between VIOS on a Power 6 blade and any other Power 6 hardware. I used the "IBM i on a Power Blade Read-me First.pdf" from Vess Natchev (IBM) and though much of it applied to getting the blade configured with the BCS chassis, the section on using the console with VIOS and the initial configuration steps are very readable (starting around section 5.2.2)

I pretty much use the IVM for everything and rarely need to go to the command line in AIX. Is the IVM, a component of PowerVM, not included on other hardware? The GUI is pretty simple to use and outside of getting an IP address configured, I don't recall much else in command line configuring.

Pete Helgren
www.petesworkshop.com
GIAC Secure Software Programmer-Java

On 5/16/2013 12:26 PM, Roberto José Etcheverry Romero wrote:

Most of these i already had (not the one for expanding the vg and enabling
mirroring), but it's good to get them all in the same place and with
explanations no less!

I'll explain my problem then, maybe an idea will pop:
This POWER6 has no 5701/5706, it only has the internal 4 port IVE 1Gb card.
I had found a video tutorial for setting up TCPIP on VIOS but it assumed
you had a real card. the only entX devices i have are from the LHEA card. i
assigned a logical port from the HMC and created a virtual eth adapter but
when attempting the mkvdev between them i get "unrecognized error" the
syntaxis is the same as when making a bridge between virtual eth and
5701/5706 cards...
I remember getting TCPIP working (as in, HMC sees VIOS via TCPIP) but using
a dedicated port on the LHEA card, and i want to make it use the bridge
device...

I'm going to a client tonight so i'll have to leave for next week.

Thanks all, i'll update with info as i get it.

Best Regards,

Roberto

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Jim Oberholtzer <
midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Here's a starter. Some of these I ripped off from Larry Bolhuis:

***To mirror VIOS first include the second disk in the Volume Group
extendvg rootvg hdisk1

*** Then mirror to it
mirrorios hdisk1

*** Configure Devices. Must be done whenever DLPAR is done for VIOS.
cfgdev

***List Physical Volumes
lspv

***List Logical volumes on a pv
lspv -lv hdisk0

***List Volume Groups
lsvg

***List Logical volumes in a Volume Group

lsvg -lv iStorage1

***List all disks

lsdev -type disk -field name phydfsloc

***Make a new File Backed Logical Volume

mkbdsp -bd IBMi01_04 -sp iStorage1 36000M
mkbdsp -bd IBMi01_10 -sp iStorage2 36000M

mkbdsp -bd IBMia1_09 -sp iStorage1 36000M
mkbdsp -bd IBMia1_10 -sp iStorage2 36000M

***Make a bunch of them!

i=10
while [ $i -lt 12 ]
do
i=$((i+1))
mkbdsp -bd IBMia1_$i -sp iStorage1 36000M
i=$((i+1))
mkbdsp -bd IBMia1_$i -sp iStorage2 36000M
done

mkbdsp -bd IBMi02LS -sp iStorage1 36000M
mkvdev -dev vtscsi31 -vadapter vhost5 -vdev IBMi02LS

mkbdsp -bd IBMi02_01 -sp iStorage2 36000M
mkvdev -dev vtscsi32 -vadapter vhost5 -vdev IBMi02_01

mkbdsp -bd IBMi02_02 -sp iStorage1 36000M
mkvdev -dev vtscsi33 -vadapter vhost5 -vdev IBMi02_02

mkbdsp -bd IBMi02_03 -sp iStorage2 36000M
mkvdev -dev vtscsi34 -vadapter vhost5 -vdev IBMi02_03

***Remove a logical volume

rmlv IBMi01_04

i=0
while [ $i -lt 10 ]r
do
i=$((i+1))
mkbdsp -bd EPIa_10 -sp SSD1 36000M
done

rmlv -f IBMi01_$i
***List all disks mapped to their virtual host adapters:

lsmap -all

***List disks mapped to a single virtual host adapters:

lsmap -vadapter vhost1

***Make a virtual disk named vtscsi4 mapped to adapter vhost1 file
backed by IBMi01_05

mkvdev -dev vtscsi4 -vadapter vhost1 -vdev IBMi01_05

*********** VIOS Image Catalog ***************
***Make a repository in the rootvg that's 20G capacity

mkrep -sp rootvg -size 20G

***Import a file(image) from a directory into the catalog READONLY

mkvopt -name image.name -file /home/padmin/image.name -ro
mkvopt -name V7R1_Upg_01 -file /home/padmin/V7R1_Upg_01 -ro

mkvopt -name V7R1BUILD -file /home/padmin/v7/licpgm/V7R1BUILD -ro
mkvopt -name V7R1BUILD01 -file /home/padmin/v7/licpgm/V7R1BUILD01 -ro
mkvopt -name V7R1BUILD02 -file /home/padmin/v7/licpgm/V7R1BUILD02 -ro
mkvopt -name V7R1BUILD03 -file /home/padmin/v7/licpgm/V7R1BUILD03 -ro
mkvopt -name V7R1BUILD04 -file /home/padmin/v7/licpgm/V7R1BUILD04 -ro

***List disks in an Image Catalog ('Repository')
***Also shows which (if any) is loaded into which drive

lsrep

***Make a file backed optical drive vtopt0 attached to vhost0

mkvdev -fbo -dev vtopt0 -vadapter vhost0
mkvdev -fbo -dev vtopt9 -vadapter vhost9

***Load an image into the virtual drive vtopt0

loadopt -disk image.name -vtd vtopt0

***Unload whatever image is in the virtual drive vtopt0

unloadopt -vtd vtopt0

Good luck!

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects

On 5/16/2013 9:03 AM, Paul Fenstermacher wrote:

It would be very helpful if someone would post their version of the

cheat sheet. I've done a few VIOS installs and didn't think to create a
list of commands but going forward it would be helpful. Thanks Jim.

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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
Agile Technology Architects

On 5/16/2013 7:52 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

I, too, wouldn't mind learning more about this.

Rob Berendt
-- IBM Certified System Administrator - IBM i 6.1 Group Dekko Dept
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6928N 400E Kendallville, IN 46755 http://www.dekko.com From: Roberto
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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