Hi!
I've created 4 AIX lpars on Power9, then created 2 npiv ports for each one, and mapped them to a physical fcs adapter on two VIOS servers. After that, I configured 4 hosts in a v5200 flash system (just entered each WWPN manually), assigned AIX LUN, and started each lpar in SMS mode. TH\he thing is one lpar discovered the AIX LUN without any problem and booted, but the other 3 doesn't discover the AIX, and in the v5200 console, NPIV ports looks offline (even after performing chnportlogin in HMC).
$ lsmap -all -npiv
Name Physloc ClntID ClntName ClntOS
------------- ---------------------------------- ------ -------------- -------
vfchost0 U9009.22G.7835F21-V1-C3 3
Status:NOT_LOGGED_IN
FC name:fcs0 FC loc code:U78D3.001.WZS0P68-P1-C8-T1
Ports logged in:0
Flags:4<NOT_LOGGED>
VFC client name: VFC client DRC:
Name Physloc ClntID ClntName ClntOS
------------- ---------------------------------- ------ -------------- -------
vfchost1 U9009.22G.7835F21-V1-C4 4 test02 AIX
Status:LOGGED_IN
FC name:fcs0 FC loc code:U78D3.001.WZS0P68-P1-C8-T1
Ports logged in:3
Flags:a<LOGGED_IN,STRIP_MERGE>
VFC client name:fcs2 VFC client DRC:U9009.22G.7835F21-V4-C2
Name Physloc ClntID ClntName ClntOS
------------- ---------------------------------- ------ -------------- -------
vfchost2 U9009.22G.7835F21-V1-C5 5
Status:NOT_LOGGED_IN
FC name:fcs1 FC loc code:U78D3.001.WZS0P68-P1-C8-T2
Ports logged in:0
Flags:4<NOT_LOGGED>
VFC client name: VFC client DRC:
Name Physloc ClntID ClntName ClntOS
------------- ---------------------------------- ------ -------------- -------
vfchost3 U9009.22G.7835F21-V1-C9 6
Status:NOT_LOGGED_IN
FC name:fcs1 FC loc code:U78D3.001.WZS0P68-P1-C8-T2
Ports logged in:0
Flags:4<NOT_LOGGED>
VFC client name: VFC client DRC:
$
SAN configuration looks right, with one zone between lpar and v5200 per fabric.
I will appreciate any help!
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Alejandro Rojas
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