Power 8 to Power 9 swap out

Think 3 different Power 8's being upgraded to Power 9's.
Somewhat similar configurations.
- Two lpars of VIOS on each redundantly serving up DVD, fiber tape,
Ethernet.
- Each VIOS lpar has their own CEC mirrored pair of disk drives.
- Hosting lpar of IBM i on each
- Four guest lpars of IBM i on each
- lpar of AIX on 2 of the 3.

We may move all disk back to the system ASP. Currently each rack has a
system ASP and one secondary ASP. No iASPs. No SAN (except VTL tape).

I'm wondering how you do the VIOS. I've already forgotten the Power 6 to
Power 8 migration. I don't think we used VIOS on Power 6. That's right,
we had separate ethernet and fc for each lpar.
Is there some sort of magic "dump the vios config to script" or some such
thing?

Also, the sysplan migration?

We're thinking save, rip, replace, etc. We weren't thinking put the New
Power 9 into the rack and just move cables later after getting vios ready.
Maybe stupidity on my part but it would ugly my rack config. Then again,
I could always move it again... Hmm... Get the power 9 fired up. Get
VIOS configed on it. Power it off. Remove from rack, then replace
later...



Rob Berendt