I've published a new blog post regarding why you should stop making LPAR changes with partition profiles:

Please Stop Changing Partition Profiles

Please check it out.  I welcome any comments and suggestions and topics for future articles.

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Please Stop Changing Partition Profiles I normally try to write articles focused on IBM i, but in this case, there really isn't any difference between IBM i, AIX, and Linux.All partitions (especially VIOS) should follow the same rules. View this on Vios4i >

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Vincent Greene
IT Consultant
Technology Services
IBM
Vincent.Greene@ibm.com


The postings on this site are my own and don't necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions.
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Great blog post - and thanks for writing the Vios4i blog!

VIOS is so different from IBM i and is often mostly configured during server upgrades/replacements, and most IBM i people will never get confident in VIOS operations. So any blog or other ressource to educate us IBM i folks is much appreciated. :-)

Best regards,
Christian

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Christian Jorgensen
IT System Administrator
Network of Music Partners A/S
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The enhanced GUI is missing one important thing: a red persistent warning when automatic saving of configuration changes has been switched off when you are making a change. It got switched off because someone edited the profile directly. You will happily keep on making changes using the enhanced GUI - only to lose all changes at next downtime. Especially annoying when virtual FC adapters are lost, and you have to recreate them and update the zoning and host definitions on the storage.

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Zaki Jääskeläinen
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@Zaki Jääskeläinen I totally agree.  Might I suggest that you propose that using IBM ideas portal: https://ibm-power-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas and share the id with a comment on the blog post?​​

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Vincent Greene
IT Consultant
Technology Services
IBM
Vincent.Greene@ibm.com


The postings on this site are my own and don't necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions.
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Original Message:
Sent: Mon January 09, 2023 03:41 AM
From: Zaki Jääskeläinen
Subject: New Blog Post: Please Stop Changing Partition Profiles

The enhanced GUI is missing one important thing: a red persistent warning when automatic saving of configuration changes has been switched off when you are making a change. It got switched off because someone edited the profile directly. You will happily keep on making changes using the enhanced GUI - only to lose all changes at next downtime. Especially annoying when virtual FC adapters are lost, and you have to recreate them and update the zoning and host definitions on the storage.

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Zaki Jääskeläinen
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