Buck,
If you've listed everything correctly the MUST be a NWSD on CTL14 that is
capable of virtualizing the tape. That said, since you found the optical
already the tape must be virtualized by the same adapter as the optical.
In reading what you have there it seems very confusing about your set up.
Also I don't see any provision for Ethernet connections, so unless you have
a second Ethernet card assigned to the partition I'm not sure how that's
going to work. You can set up a virtual Ethernet path to the virtual
partition but that partition would not be able to communicate to the world,
only to the host.
So, that all said:
What you need on the HMC:
Host:
* At least one Ethernet on a VLAN that the host and virtual partition will
share
* A SCSI adapter to host the disk units (and potentially the virtual
tape/optical as well)
* A second SCSI adapter to virtualize only the optical/tape (optional if
the first adapter does it)
Hosted Virtual partition:
* An Ethernet adapter on the same VLAN as suggested above.
* A SCSI adapter that is connected to the Host adapter suggested above.
* A second SCSI adapter for the send host adapter as suggested above.
It is also very highly recommended that you have AT LEAST 6 virtual storage
devices (NWSSTG) You can make them 50GB each to keep the size of the
partition lower if you don't need the space.
Attach the disk units to the first host SCSI adapter.
Now you need the NWSD controllers. One for each adapter on the Host. (I
think you figured out how to get the resource names)
Set the load source up for the first adapter, and the alternate for the
second adapter. (this may be the point of failure here)
It actually took almost as long to type all this as it would be to set it
up.
Contact me privately if you want some assistance.
--
Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects
-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Buck
Calabro
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2015 11:38 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: IBM i guest of IBM i host doesn't find tape drive
My very first time working with an HMC.
Followed the instructions in the S814 hardware Knowledge Center and set up a
guested LPAR with an existing 7.2 host LPAR. I'm trying to create a
development partition for developers to test with.
When I activate the guest LPAR, it reads the I_BASE DVD but it can't find
the tape drive (a TS2900). I'm so close, but can't work out what I'm doing
wrong.
I have 2 virtual Server SCSI adapters for the host:
Server SCSI 3 Any Partition - WRKHDWRSC CTL02 - NWSD(DEV) 500GB Server SCSI
4 Dev(2) slot 5 - WRKHDWRSC CTL14 - no NWSD
I have 2 virtual SCSI adapters for the guest:
Client SCSI 2 BlueTwo(1) slot 3
Client SCSI 5 BlueTwo(1) slot 4
Guest Tagged I/O:
Load source: Slot 2 / Virtual I/O
Alternate restart: Slot 5 / Virtual I/O
Console: Slot 1 / Virtual I/O
Alternate console:
Operations console direct:
I got as far as DST, so the virtual I/O to the console and the DVD is
working. I haven't been able to tease better documentation out of the
Knowledge Center. IBM i 7.2, HMC 8.3.0.
--
--buck
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