Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hello Everyone,

Can someone tell me if BOOTP is used when an AIX client connects to a NIMOL server for installations?

Thanks,

James Marcinek

Originally posted by: nagger

As it is the hardware doing the initial connection the NIM target is not important.
It will use bootp and the tftp.

One note of warning bootp comes in lots of favours, i.e. protocol options which can cause problems which is odd as I thought bootp was going to be very simple. This has cause my problems in the past. This caused me problems when booting Linux on POWER but you should be OK as NIMOL will return the bootp information the way the hardware is expecting.

Hope this helps, N

Originally posted by: davegor

Hi Nigel,

Thanks for your all the work in supporting and teaching all the Pseries family products and for all the power point presentiations, etc. It's huge contribution for thouse of us learning AIX and related products.

I have a question, Could I use a NIIMOL on a Linux redhat, let say 6.4 in order to provide all type of NIM Resources to Pseries Systems and therefore

Lpars or standalone systems ?

Could the NIMOL provide the lpp_source, mksysb, scripts to be set up dring a bos install, install bundles, etc.?

or would be better to use a dedicated Pseries system to perform this? I ask you this question because I would like to make use of the Proliant machine I have to make the same function as a Kickstart server but to create resources for Pseries systems.

Thanks

 

David G Oriz

 

 

 

 

 

 

Originally posted by: nagger

Hi, You are welcome.

Why would I use NIMOL when I have a real NIM on a micro-partition running AIX with all the function I want?  When it is not busy installing it takes practically no resources.

Sorry but having a quick look around there is very little new or current information on NIMOL nothing in the last 5 years. This Forum Entry is from 2007!  So I conclude this is not a popular way of doing things and you will be largely on your own.  It also makes it impossible to justify my time investigating further. Sorry but that is the way it goes.

Thank, Nigel Griffiths

 

Originally posted by: davegor

Hi Nigel,

 

Many Thanks for your advice. Now I am looking  at any entry-level Power Series for our UAT envionment.  Budget 5500 GBP, We have two EMC DMX Enginuity 5772.88.80 and V-Max Enginuity 5874.207. Storage Systmes. I would like to setup a couple of VIOS servers and couple of hmc to play around with and as to setup labs for our UAT team.

 

Any suggestions will be most wellcome.

 

Thanks

 

David G Oriz

 

 

Originally posted by: davegor

And also a 2 NIm servers. for redundancy.

 

Thanks

Originally posted by: davegor

Hi Nigel,

I am looking at the 720 Express as one of the options.

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/720/browse_aix.html

Cheers

David