Rob,
On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 01:34:36PM -0400, Rob Berendt wrote:
Six: Do you need to "step stone" your upgrades? In your case one
possiblity is to
A) Upgrade from 8.8.1 to 8.8.3 then
B) Upgrade from 8.8.3 to 8.8.5 then
C) Upgrade from 8.8.5 to 8.8.6 or 8.8.7
D) And if you decide to go past 8.8.6 upgrade to 9.1.910
I took the stepping stone approach and am up to 8.8.6. Thanks for all the
pointers!!
I'm not sure if I'm going to stay there or move up to 9.1.910. At first I
didn't like the enhanced interface, but some parts of it are starting to
grow on me.
There's only one task my operators use the HMC web interface for - moving
our tape library controllers from one LPAR to another. I have an automated
process set up to move them, but every once in a great while it fails and an
operator has to move one or both controllers manually. With the classic
interface they use the Physical Adaptors -> Move or Remove function, or
something like that. I'm at home and working from memory. So far with the
enhanced interface the only way I've found to achieve the same goal is to
remove the adaptors from one LPAR then add them to the other LPAR. And with
that method an adaptor the operators aren't used of seeing is also listed.
They could accidentally remove the wrong one. Then again, it happens so
infrequently I could just have them call me if it needs to be done.
The HMC updates was the easy part. Now to start exploring the tangled web
of getting firmware and OS PTFs up to date. But those are topics for other
threads, many of which already exist for my reading pleasure.
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