Re: Migrate iTERA to PowerHA

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Jim Oberholtzer
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On 5/21/2013 11:48 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> And how do you replicate the user profiles, etc?
>
>
> Rob Berendt
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> midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx Any object conversions would happen 
> when the iASP is varied on with a sysbase at the newer release. 
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> 400, Omaha, NE 68154 -----Original Message----- From: rob@xxxxxxxxx 
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> Midrange Systems Technical Discussion Subject: Re: Migrate iTERA to 
> PowerHA So this doesn't copy stuff like user profiles, object 
> ownership and that stuff? I guess I can see leaving some of this stuff 
> out of the iasp, like the key assigned to a vendor package. Stuff we 
> already deal with in Mimix type of environments. What about the object 
> conversions I mentioned earlier: stream file type1 to type2, 
> STROBJCVN, etc. Any of that a factor during the upgrade? Rob Berendt
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> Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: Midrange Systems 
> Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Date: 05/21/2013 11:52 
> AM Subject: Re: Migrate iTERA to PowerHA Sent by: 
> midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx With PowerHA all the customer data is 
> in an iASP leaving *SYSBAS to only the OS and LPP. (and stuff that has 
> to be there that the administrative domain or HA Assist replicate) So 
> you push the iASP over to the second system in the cluster, vary it on 
> and away you go. Now number 1 only has *SYSBAS attached. Upgrade/Apply 
> PTFs at your pleasure during working hours. When done bring the 
> cluster back and repeat with number two. Most folks actually have two 
> copies of the iASP in separate locations rather than just doing the 
> clustering described above. It's all part of clustering. Jim 
> Oberholtzer Chief Technical Architect Agile Technology Architects On 
> 5/21/2013 10:29 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > >  I think this has been answered before so forgive my continuing doubts.
> > >  But is this setup sort of like:
> > >
> > >  Power 7 #1
> > >
> > >  connected to SAN
> > >
> > >  Power 7 #2
> > >
> > >  You do some magic that says run on #2 now.  Both #1 and #2 are using the
> > >  same SAN but only one can be 'live' at a time?
> > >
> > >  How does one upgrade the OS?  Wouldn't that require some outage?
> > >  Considering that part of the OS may be a conversion like changing stream
> > >  files from TYPE1 to TYPE2 (remember that?), strobjcvn, all the system
> > >  cross reference files, etc.
> > >
> > >
> > >  Rob Berendt
> > >  -- IBM Certified System Administrator - IBM i 6.1 Group Dekko Dept
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> > >  6928N 400E Kendallville, IN 46755http://www.dekko.com
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