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  • 1.  Remote Backup Node

    Posted Thu October 12, 2023 02:31 PM

    Hello Team ! 

    Trying to clarify if this can be in a "mixed" environment.  Where PowerVC instances would be on X86 ( no fibre connectivity) and the backup node would be on Linux on Power with fibre connectivity.



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    Alan Fulton Follow me on Twitter - @The_Iron_Monger
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  • 2.  RE: Remote Backup Node

    Posted Fri October 13, 2023 04:44 AM

    My question here would be "what are you trying to achieve?"  What is the backup node used for?



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    Phill Rowbottom
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  • 3.  RE: Remote Backup Node

    Posted Fri October 13, 2023 04:53 AM

    BackupNode is needed to copy the images from A to B. 

    e.g. from PowerVC offprem to PowerVS in the cloud



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    Andre Lutz
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  • 4.  RE: Remote Backup Node

    Posted Fri October 13, 2023 05:22 AM

    Ahhh not a part of PowerVC's functionality that I've used.  I have loaded in the AIX Cloud ready images via VIOs, we have our PowerVC servers on VMWare, but not generated images to take out of PowerVC environment to PowerVS.



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  • 5.  RE: Remote Backup Node

    Posted Fri October 13, 2023 04:51 AM

    Hello Alan,

    I haven't tested it yet but I don't think the installation will work. 

    It will trigger an installation from the PowerVC Master. 
    From there the packages are copied to the backup node. 
    If the master is an x86 node it probably only has the packages for x86 and unfortunately no ppc64le packages. 

    But in any case it is worth an IBM idea. 



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  • 6.  RE: Remote Backup Node

    Posted Mon October 16, 2023 09:42 AM

    Was told this would absolutely work so that when it didn't I could only believe that we have missed a step in the configuration.  I agree with you though , that the PowerVC node would not have the ppc64le packages on board to deploy to the backup node.  
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    So that begs the question , if we loaded those files manually or added them in a location that PowerVC could access when creating the backup node , would that work ?



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    Alan Fulton Follow me on Twitter - @The_Iron_Monger
    Budd Lake
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