RE: VIOS iSCSI vs. Fibre Channel with NPIV -- MIDRANGE-L

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"Jim Oberholtzer" <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on Fri, 14
Nov 2014 14:26:56 GMT:

I have to admit, VIOS is starting to win me over particularly
with the management mainly in the HMC code. The only command
I had to run on the VIOS side was CFGDEV then a command or two
to verify the Fibre logged in (it did).

Sorry that I misunderstood about where you were coming from
storage-wise.

You know you can see all the mappings via the HMC and change
them too for NPIV?

While I like ... well like isn't really the appropriate term ...
using the command line because it feels faster, I'm forcing
myself to attempt to be VIOS command line free.

cfgdev normally runs without intervention due to a DLPAR
operation. If not, there's the operations -> run vios command
to take care of it.

select no LPARs (V7R7xx HMCs) and navigate Configuration ->
Virtual Resources -> Virtual storage management -> Virtual Fibre
Channel tab.

The new V8R810 code does it different, but gives lots more
information about the VFCs.

Next release of HMC code is even better.

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