Rob,
If you are keeping all your disks, then you could move the entire drawer(s) as is, no migration needed.
Not sure if this would minimize/eliminate your VIOS issue(s).
Paul
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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rob Berendt
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2018 4:11 PM
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Subject: RE: Power 8 to Power 9 swap out
We have two kinds of SSD's. One large group which we bought with our Power 8. Another large group we bought when the maintenance on the first group became cost prohibitive and we self maintain the older ones. We keep them in a separate user ASP.
We will carry all of these over to our Power 9.
Rob Berendt
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From: "Steinmetz, Paul" <PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'"
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Date: 03/30/2018 04:05 PM
Subject: RE: Power 8 to Power 9 swap out
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Rob,
Just curious, which controller and SSD feature are planning on for your P9
configs?
Paul
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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rob
Berendt
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2018 2:52 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Power 8 to Power 9 swap out
I'd like to get back to one of my original questions.
This time can we concentrate on:
Do I save/restore VIOS? If I do, how does one do this? Honestly I've
'NEVER' saved my VIOS, let alone tried to figure out how to do a bare
metal restore.
Or do I reconfig from scratch? If I do it from scratch, is there some
sort of magic "dump the vios config to script" or some such thing?
<snip>
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?
</snip>
Rob Berendt
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