Re: VIOS: Upgrading from 2.2.6.32 to 3.1.1.xx

I concur with the idea of not upgrading at all and just doing a clean
install of 3.x
Unless you have a heavily customized VIOS, most VIOSes can be recreated
quickly via scripts. If you output the current configuration, it's easy to
generate the commands to configure the new one. And it's an opportunity to
do all the housekeeping that usually falls behind (HBA, NIC, SISSAS, Etc,
Firmware, changing from SDDPCM to AIX MPIO, Updating HBA / buffers to new
best practices, etc).


On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 6:07 PM Steve Pavlichek <spavlichek@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

This is the best guide I have found with the most up to date info.
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/upgrading-vios-31

Another one worthy of a read
https://theibmi.org/2020/07/26/vios-3-1-upgrade-for-everyone/




From: Rob Berendt<mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2020 4:37 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion<mailto:
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Subject: VIOS: Upgrading from 2.2.6.32 to 3.1.1.xx

I am reading the website at
https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ibm.com%2Fsupport%2Fpages%2Fvios-31-viosupgrade-process&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7Cb86e3bc169884bfc4d4408d859b73086%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637357990608263906&amp;sdata=PeQf%2BmT5CLT6JNsMU3ddUA5aoZIARrZ69VqcKQny8OA%3D&amp;reserved=0
This is the first vios 2 to 3 upgrade I'll be doing.

We use internal disks in the system unit for VIOS.
Lpar vios1 has 1 disk mirrored to another. Lpar vios2 has 1 disk mirrored
to another.
All other partitions use internal disk in expansion units. One IBM i lpar
is the host for all that other disk.
Not anything too fancy here. No SAN, Live Partition Mobility, Shared
Storage Pool clusters, High Availability (outside of IBM i replication
software Quick-EDD), etc.

I'd like to get to the highest level currently supported but realize I may
have to step stone a bit.

My instructions from other times refer to updateios but from What I've
read that's not for 2.x.x.x to 3.x.x.x type upgrades. This leaves me with
the viosupgrade command.
Someone have some step by step instructions for this?

Rob Berendt
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