Re: Moving a DVD drive owned by VIOS -- MIDRANGE-L

Dana,
Are you attempting to move the dvd from one Client LPAR to another Client
LPAR or from one VIOS to another VIOS?
As Rob said, it's better to work with images from IBM i or if that's not
possible to work with the virtual dvd from VIOS where you can have a
virtual DVD for each partition. Now, if you need direct DVD to a VIOS for
upgrade or something like that you can always assign the USB controller to
that LPAR and just use a portable dvd. I've done that to install vios in
some cases...
But in reality for fixes and upgrades i always end up ftp-ing the data and
running from disk.

Best Regards,
Roberto

On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Mitchell, Dana <dmitche@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Also referenced in IBM PowerVM Virtualization Introduction and
Configuration SG24-7940:

16.2.3 Virtual optical
A DVD or CD device assigned to the Virtual I/O Server partition can be
virtualized for shared use by the Virtual I/O Server's client partitions.
Figure 16-25 shows the Virtual I/O Server and client partition virtual
SCSI setup
for the shared optical device with the Virtual I/O Server owning the
physical
optical device and virtualizing it by its virtual SCSI server adapter in
slot 90
configured for Any client partition can connect.

<Figure 16-25 SCSI setup for shared optical device>

Only one virtual I/O client partition can have access to the drive at a
time like
shown in Figure 16-25 for the DB_server partition currently accessing the
virtualized optical device. The advantage of a virtual optical device is
that you do
not have to move the parent SCSI adapter between virtual I/O clients, which
might even not be possible when this SCSI adapter also controls the
internal disk
drives on which the Virtual I/O Server was installed.

Attention:
The virtual drive cannot be moved to another Virtual I/O Server because
client
SCSI adapters cannot be created in a Virtual I/O Server. If you want the
CD or
DVD drive in another Virtual I/O Server, the virtual device must be
unconfigured and the parent SCSI adapter must be unconfigured and moved
using dynamic LPAR as described in IBM PowerVM Virtualization Managing
and Monitoring, SG24-7590.

Is there somewhere that the better approach is documented?

Dana

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Kris,

This tidbit came from IBM PowerVM Virtualization Managing and Monitoring
SG24-7590-04

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Dana,

If you have separate VSCSI server and client pairs for each lpar you
should only have to do step 1 to vary off the optical device. Then you can
go to the HMC or VIOS and change ownership of the DVD drive. The steps
below imply you have only one virtual scsi server adapter that is
configured to accept any virtual scsi clients. This is not recommended
since it is hard to control who has connected to that vscsi server adapter
since only one can be connected at a time. Can you share where you found
this documentation?

Thanks

Kris Whitney

message: 5
date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 21:24:45 +0000
from: "Mitchell, Dana" <dmitche@xxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Moving a DVD drive owned by VIOS

We're setting up a new production box with VIOS. Did install and
maintenance on one LPAR now need to move the DVD drive to the other LPAR.
Is this still the only way to remove a VIOS owned virtualized DVD drive
from one lpar to move it to another? Really?

Deallocating a shared virtual optical device on IBM i To deallocate a
shared virtual optical device, complete these steps:
1. Use the following VRYCFG command to vary off the optical device from
IBM i:
VRYCFG CFGOBJ(OPT01) CFGTYPE(*DEV) STATUS(*OFF) 2. To release the optical
device with its virtual SCSI connection to the virtual SCSI server adapter
for use by another Virtual I/O Server client partition, disable its virtual
IOP from the SST Hardware Service Manager. Locate the logical resource for
the virtual IOP, and select the I/O debug option.
3. Select the Reset I/O processor option, as shown in Figure 9-4.

Dana

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