After adding the new NED24 NVMe expansion disk to the Power 10 9043-MRX server using the EJ2A adapter, the fcs adapter on port 0 now shows a child NVMe Discovery Controller. This change has caused a longer completion time for both rebooting and running cgrmgr. It impacted all the LPAR . Reference code 3040
# lsdev -C | grep 05-00
fcnvme0 Available 05-00-02 FC-NVMe Protocol Device
fcs0 Available 05-00 PCIe3 2-Port 32Gb FC Adapter (df1000e314101506)
fscsi0 Available 05-00-01 FC SCSI I/O Controller Protocol Device
nvme2 Defined 05-00-02 NVMe Discovery Controller
nvme3 Defined 05-00-02 NVMe Discovery Controller
nvme4 Defined 05-00-02 NVMe Discovery Controller
nvme5 Defined 05-00-02 NVMe Discovery Controller
nvme6 Defined 05-00-02 NVMe Discovery Controller
nvme7 Defined 05-00-02 NVMe Discovery Controller
nvme8 Defined 05-00-02 NVMe Discovery Controller
nvme9 Defined 05-00-02 NVMe Discovery Controller
nvme10 Defined 05-00-02 NVMe Discovery Controller
nvme11 Defined 05-00-02 NVMe Discovery Controller
nvme12 Defined 05-00-02 NVMe Discovery Controller
nvme13 Defined 05-00-02 NVMe Discovery Controller
nvme14 Defined 05-00-02 NVMe Discovery Controller
nvme15 Defined 05-00-02 NVMe Discovery Controller
nvme16 Defined 05-00-02 NVMe Discovery Controller
nvme17 Defined 05-00-02 NVMe Discovery Controller
nvme34 Defined 05-00-02 NVMe Dynamic Controller
nvme35 Defined 05-00-02 NVMe Dynamic Controller
nvme36 Defined 05-00-02 NVMe Dynamic Controller
nvme37 Defined 05-00-02 NVMe Dynamic Controller
nvme38 Defined 05-00-02 NVMe Dynamic Controller
nvme39 Defined 05-00-02 NVMe Dynamic Controller
nvme40 Defined 05-00-02 NVMe Dynamic Controller
nvme41 Defined 05-00-02 NVMe Dynamic Controller
nvme42 Defined 05-00-02 NVMe Dynamic Controller
nvme43 Defined 05-00-02 NVMe Dynamic Controller
nvme44 Defined 05-00-02 NVMe Dynamic Controller
nvme45 Defined 05-00-02 NVMe Dynamic Controller
nvme46 Defined 05-00-02 NVMe Dynamic Controller
nvme47 Defined 05-00-02 NVMe Dynamic Controller
nvme48 Defined 05-00-02 NVMe Dynamic Controller
nvme49 Defined 05-00-02 NVMe Dynamic Controller
sfwcomm0 Available 05-00-01-FF Fibre Channel Storage Framework Comm
#cfgmgr
attempting to configure device 'nvme33'
Time: 31 LEDS: 0x3040
invoking /usr/lib/methods/cfgnvmeof -l nvme33
Number of running methods: 32
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