The only way to share a fiber channel card is by creating a VIOS partition that owns the card and then creating a vfiber adapter pairing between the IBM i client and the VIOS server partition. You'll need the 8gb card that you have, a SAN switch that is NPIV capable and v7r1.
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From: Evan Harris [mailto:auctionitis@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 3:57 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Fibre Channel Tape Sharing on Guest Partition
Hi All
I am currently building a guest partition on a 720 and have been asked if it is possible to share the fibre channel attached tape library somehow with the guest. The hosting hardware only has a single fibre channel card, at this point in time.
I know that the baked in tape virtualisation will share tape drives but not libraries over virtual scsi so I am not expecting the library to show up there (but I'd be pleasantly surprised if it did...)
Apart from moving the card between partitions as required is there any other way of sharing or virtualising the fibre channel connected library to the guest using the existing hardware ?
In case it mattes the card is a two port 8 Gigabit card feature code 577D.
Both Guest and host partitions are running V7R1 TR7.
If the answer is just to get another card please feel free to point this out.
Thanks
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Regards
Evan Harris
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