Re: Housekeeping

Dr, i was about to ask what kind of drugs you were on...
I've been reading and working on this arcane system called VIOS, it's not
THAT hard, but it's typical *nix stuff, extremely long comands with no F4
prompt.
I think i might need a whiteboard before i'm finished playing with this,
just to visualize the complex network.

From the disk to the storage pool, then to the filesystem, and then to the

file. THAT file attached to the vscsi controller...
It's powerfull, but accepts no idiots. One bad decision can cripple the
whole thing or make it a pain to service (i was thinking of using each disk
without mirror and then mirroring at IBM i level... then realized the
amount of work changing a disk would be)
Why couldn't they make a nice web based gui is beyond me. A vSphere-like
GUI would make it SO easy to work with...

In any case, i dont know if IBM i supports things like Partition Mobility,
but most of the top-level stuff that VIOS does are beyond IBM i.
Always remember that most of the virtualization comes from the firmware,
VIOS is just that, a Virtual IO Server. If you have native hardware you
could continue to run your LPARs without using VIOS.

Best Regards!




On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Larry, you REALLY had me worried there for a minute - yeah, THAT long!

----- Original Message -----
VIOS is may absolute favorite environment of all time. The command line
is awesome. The help text is clear and the examples are marvelous. The
menus are well organized and understandable. Everything is so intuitive
there and of course the GUI support is beyond believe.

Oh wiat, that was IBM i. Sorry, VIOS is none of that. ...

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com
www.iInTheCloud.com

On 5/20/2013 5:17 PM, Paul Fenstermacher wrote:

It really isn't as scary as it sounds. I've been IBM i since 1986 and

I've learned lots about VIOS in the last year because we use it quite a bit
here.

Paul Fenstermacher | Sys/NW Admin,Sr | Corporate Systems - POWER

Systems Administration | Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.(r)

663 West Highway 60 | Monett, MO 65708 | Ph. 417.235.6652 | x177389 |

pfenstermacher@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Hosted by IBM i.

At some time we'll be playing with VIOS. Everyone's warning me that I'm

really going to start complicating the system but I get the impression that
VIOS is the wave of the future for disk on Power hardware.

Rob Berendt
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From: Mark S Waterbury <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date: 05/20/2013 02:59 PM
Subject: Re: Housekeeping
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Hi, Rob:

That would be some kind of "Virtual SCSI" disk, right?

So Domino is running in an LPAR ...

But, is this LPAR hosted by IBM i, or by VIOS?

Mark

> On 5/20/2013 2:54 PM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Guess what kind of disk drives are involved:
Size %
Unit Type (M) Used
1 6B22 130493 77.2
2 6B22 130493 77.2
3 6B22 130493 77.2
4 6B22 130493 77.2
5 6B22 130493 77.2
6 6B22 130493 77.2
7 6B22 130493 77.2
8 6B22 130493 77.2
9 6B22 130493 77.2
10 6B22 130493 77.2
11 6B22 130493 77.2
12 6B22 130493 77.2
13 6B22 130493 77.2
14 6B22 130493 77.2
15 6B22 130493 77.2
16 6B22 130493 77.2
17 6B22 130493 77.2
18 6B22 130493 77.2
Quick, what's a 6B22?
...
...
...
Answer, it's a virtual disk drive. This lpar is guested on another.



Rob Berendt

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