RE: Loadsource Migration Questions

[Pete Massiello - ML <pmassiello-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can copy virtual to physical, just have to make sure the physical is the same size or bigger.  That is the gotcha.

	Pete

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Evan Harris
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 10:01 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Loadsource Migration Questions

So why can'y you allocate the IOA into the guest partition and proceed as per the documentation ?

General list of steps I would use to achieve this:
- Allocate IOA into guest partition
- Add the disks into the ASP from the IOA (except disk to be used as Load
Source)
- Start RAID
- STRASPBAL *ENDALC on all virtual disk units
- STRASPBAL *MOVDTA to copy data from virtual disks to physical disks
- Shutdown and restart into DST
- Logical remove of Virtual Disk Units
- Copy Load Source to spare physical disk
- Shutdown
- Tag Load source as the physical adapter
- Unlink Storage spaces on virtual adapter
- Fire up the guest partition

This might need some work but I can't see why this would work.
Should be the same as if it was a new physical adapter except one set of hardware happens to be virtual.





On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Kirk Goins <kirkgoins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The question for you Hardware Wizards, short of a Unload/Reload is 
> there a way to get the loadsource off of vSCSI and on to a Physical Controller?
> Unless you KNOW the answer, read no further, stop and delete the 
> message and forget I asked :)
>
> Many Thanks in advance...
>
> Many times in the past I have copied the Loadsource to a larger drive 
> on small systems where downtime was not an issue ( M-F 8x5 ) type of 
> shop. I was always swapping out at least the entire loadsource raid 
> set, so I have just stopped raid5, did my loadsource copy and after 
> all the other drives were replaced, restarted raid.
>
> I now have the need to migrate a partition from IBM i on IBM i Guest 
> partition to the guest no longer being a guest. It needs to have its 
> own disk controllers and disks. All other I/O ( are already that way ).
>
>  I found a doc in the V7R1 Info Center on how to do this. Task 3.1 
> says Ensure that there are enough open disk slots* under the IOA *that 
> contain the load source 1. disk unit (unit 1).
>
>
> http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/advanced/searchView.j
> sp?searchWord=Upgrading%20the%20load%20source%20disk%20unit%20with&max
> Hits=500&group=None
>
> This sounds like show stopper since my current loadsource is on vSCSI 
> and the new would be on a real controller.
>
>
> --
> Kirk
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