Re: HMC V9SP1

To answer your question thought the wwn goes between the slashes in the
virtual_fc_adapters section.

The example below is i hosting i.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.Frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com - Personal Development IBM i timeshare service.
www.iInTheCloud.com - Commercial IBM i Cloud Hosting.

On 11/29/2018 5:13 PM, DrFranken wrote:

How hard was that? LOL!

mksyscfg -r lpar -m "Nimitz-104AD6T" -i

"name=Demo,profile_name=Demo,lpar_id=5,\"virtual_scsi_adapters=4/client/10//4/1,5/client/10//5/1\",\"virtual_eth_adapters=2/0/5//0/1,9/0/99//0/1\",lpar_env=os400,min_mem=512,desired_mem=2048,max_mem=3072,proc_mode=shared,min_procs=1,desired_procs=1,max_procs=1,min_proc_units=0.05,desired_proc_units=0.05,max_proc_units=1.0,sharing_mode=uncap,shared_proc_pool_name=DefaultPool,uncap_weight=128,auto_start=0,load_source_slot=5,alt_restart_device_slot=9,console_slot=hmc,max_virtual_slots=10"

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.Frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com - Personal Development IBM i timeshare service.
www.iInTheCloud.com - Commercial IBM i Cloud Hosting.

On 11/29/2018 3:12 PM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:

One more thing, before Larry responds with "command line, use it, love
it". I have to document this for the customer who will not use the
command
line, so GUI is it.

--
Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 1:53 PM Jim Oberholtzer
<midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I hate it when I fat finger....

So continuing:

Build the VIOS, all four of 'em, no sweat. Update VIOS also very

easy.

Now try to build the IBM i partitions. Managing the profile. Has

IBM

even bothered to Alpha test this crap?
Windows jump around and size themselves so not all the data fits.
Fix the
window size and then when you put the cursor on it and click to gain
focus,
bam, it resizes again.
Error messages that for about 2 seconds are valid until you fill in

the

second WWPN will not go away, you have to bail out of the dialog and
come
back in to clear.
Things do not save when they should. (even when the explicit "save"
button is pushed.

What would have been done in about 45 minutes in the old interface
has now
taken nearly six hours because this idiotic interface does not work
properly. And that's with IBM i on a SAN. I'd hate to think what
it looks
like with IBM i hosting IBM i. I'm going to find out soon since
I'll be
installing one of those next week.

Hey IBM. Test the )(*&(^&%*&$&$&$%&*() HMC code BEFORE you ship it.
Better yet, give me back the old interface that A) worked, B) was not
confusing as hell, and C) was actually productive......

---
Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 1:42 PM Jim Oberholtzer <
midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So brand spanken new HMCs show up with the P9. OK, now I have to
use the
HMC V9 now even though I really hate the new interface. So, I
have to
configure 4 VIOS partitions, and 6 IBM i partitions. Next get the
virtual
fiber connections set up so the partitions can see the SAN.

Build the VIOS no sweat, load and update the


Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects

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