Yes it does, however....
You also indicated that the assignments on the HMC were any/any. That means
you really don't know where those devices are, they could be and likely are
in the correct place but they also could be not assigned properly.
Also each time one of the partitions is IPLd, you very likely get a new
backing device created since the FSP cannot guarantee that vSCSI device was
assigned to that partition recently so it just creates a new device within
IBM i , that will lead to real confusion about which optical device is real
and which ones are old and not usable.
When you do the WRKOPTVOL make sure to put a "5" or "11" next to the optical
platter you think is right. If it comes up with data, you're good to go,
otherwise you know right then and there a problem exists.
I tend to use the network based optical virtualization as opposed to the
vSCSI simply because it's more reliable. See:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp4937.pdf
or better:
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/systems/support/power/i/nfs_optical_upgrade.pdf
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-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David
Gibbs
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2018 10:59 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: A couple of OS upgrade questions
On 3/24/2018 12:33 PM, DrFranken wrote:
It doesn't now? Well that's just not accurate! I use this constantly
and have another queued to run tonight and it's worked flawlessly for
years. Maybe like the old ladies in the commercial
say: "You're not doing it right!" :-)
Here's what I was told...
The virtualization of the optical drive/virtual drive on the HOST
partition is done by the network server description and vSCSI
connections. This functionality works even at a hardware level; I can
D-mode IPL a hosted partition from a HOST image catalog. There is one
nuance though, the licensed code on the hosted partition does not have
the 'smarts' to tell the HOST to load the next DVD image.
That has to be done manually with WRKIMGCLG on the HOST partition.
Does that make sense?
david
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