Re: Creating IBM i Client Partitions Using Virtual Partition Manager GUI

Gotchas, not really. The article does gloss over the importance of the
network server descriptions being set up properly. If you ask Larry and
me, we will both create at least two NWSD. One the handles nothing but the
network server storage and one that sets up tape/DVD.

CRTNWSD NWSD(BARNEY1) RSRCNAME(CTL09) TYPE(*GUEST +
*OPSYS) ONLINE(*NO) VRYWAIT(*NOWAIT) +
SHUTDTIMO(31) PARTITION(*NONE) PTNNBR(3) +
CODEPAGE(437) MSGQ(*JOBLOG) +
POOL(*SHRPOOL50) TCPPORTCFG(*NONE) +
TCPRTE(*NONE) TCPHOSTNAM(*NWSD) +
TCPDMNNAME(*SYS) TCPNAMSVR(*SYS) +
RSTDDEVRSC(*ALLTAPE *ALLOPT) +
IPLSRC(*NWSSTG) IPLSTMF(*NONE) +
IPLPARM(*NONE) PWRCTL(*NO) SRVOPT(*NONE) +
TEXT(*BLANK)
CRTNWSD NWSD(BARNEYP) RSRCNAME(CTL07) TYPE(*GUEST +
*OPSYS) ONLINE(*NO) VRYWAIT(*NOWAIT) +
SHUTDTIMO(31) PARTITION(*NONE) PTNNBR(3) +
CODEPAGE(437) MSGQ(*JOBLOG) +
POOL(*SHRPOOL50) TCPPORTCFG(*NONE) +
TCPRTE(*NONE) TCPHOSTNAM(*NWSD) +
TCPDMNNAME(*SYS) TCPNAMSVR(*SYS) +
TCPDMNNAME(*SYS) TCPNAMSVR(*SYS) +
RSTDDEVRSC(*NONE) +
IPLSRC(*NWSSTG) IPLSTMF(*NONE) +
IPLPARM(*NONE) PWRCTL(*NO) SRVOPT(*NONE) +
TEXT(*BLANK)


The key is the RSTDDEVRSC parameter. BARNEY1 does not allow tape/DVD,
BARNEYP does.

Then your image catalog can be used for loading the OS, LPP, and PTFs etc.

Make sure you set the storage up right. If this is a test/dev/playground,
then set it up with whatever storage you need, but use at least 40GB drives
when you create them to keep them over the 35GB lower limit. if this is a
production partition in any way, make sure there are at least 6 disk units.

Also note that I used shared storage pools to run these in to keep them out
of *BASE.


Jim Oberholtzer
CEO/Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects

On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 12:48 PM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This step-by-step article and diagram seem simple enough.

http://ibmsystemsmag.com/ibmi/tipstechniques/systemsmanagement/vpm_i_
partitions/

I'm interested in trying this wizard later this week via IBM i Navigator
7.3 on our new S914. I then imagine using the LAN console and DST to
install IBM i 7.3 on the partition. Are there any gotchas that I should
steer clear of?
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