List of Contributions

Humberto Sosa

Contact Details

My Content

1 to 18 of 18 total
Posted By Humberto Sosa Fri September 08, 2023 11:20 AM
Found In Egroup: HMC
\ view thread
Robert Have a good day! Backup HMC Data on a vHMC x86 may be a very good alternative backup method, taking snapshot with the hypervisor techniques (ie. VSphere - virtual machine snapshot). Only is to evaluate/consider: using HMC - you got the control. Inmmediate access. using ...
Posted By Humberto Sosa Fri April 21, 2023 12:07 PM
Found In Egroup: AIX
\ view thread
Luis Have a good day! The Dell/EMC claims that is not necessary PowerPath in to AIX/VIOS. The native driver AIXPCM must be enough. In the real life is not true. There is two reasons: 1. Marketing - The Multipath driver for IBM Storage Systems is included now in the AIX/VIOS. The Dell/EMC multipath ...
Posted By Humberto Sosa Wed April 19, 2023 11:53 AM
Found In Egroup: Tape Storage
\ view thread
Gregory Have a good day! General information: The bar code for usage in IBM® tape libraries must meet predefined specifications. They include (but are not limited to): Eight uppercase alphanumeric characters, where the last 2 characters must be L9, L8, L7, L6, L5, L4, L3, L2, or L1 (LZ, LY, LX, ...
Posted By Humberto Sosa Thu March 17, 2022 01:51 PM
Found In Egroup: HMC
\ view thread
Mehdi I suggest checking the FRU of the adapter, on the LPAR1-AIX7.2 ( ie. - lscfg -vpl fcs0) PCIe2 - FRU adapter 74Y2221 or substitutes If it is this, then HMC has the reason. PCIe3 - FRU adapter 00E3496 or substitutes If it is this, maybe firmware adapter update task or open a Support Case ...
Posted By Humberto Sosa Wed March 16, 2022 11:29 AM
Found In Egroup: HMC
\ view thread
Is possible. FRU depends. Check it. The adapter is from new order or migrated/brand new? The system has PCI3 & PCI4 slots. PCIe2 adapters are supported. PCIe2 16 Gb 2-port Fibre Channel Adapter (FC EN0A; CCIN 577F) PCIe3 16 Gb 2-port Fibre Channel Adapter (FC EN0A; CCIN 577F) Regards --- ...
Posted By Humberto Sosa Thu March 10, 2022 11:24 AM
Found In Egroup: PowerVM
\ view thread
Justin Here the IBM procedures How to Setup SEA Failover on DUAL VIO servers How to Setup SEA Failover on DUAL VIO servers with VLAN Tagged Ethernet Adapters If your ports in LAN sw has been modified the default native vlan, the phy adapters does not ping. Every procedure is with dual vios. ...
Posted By Humberto Sosa Thu March 10, 2022 10:11 AM
Found In Egroup: PowerVM
\ view thread
Justin Remember that: IP must be configured on SEA adapter. In your case is ent9 (alternative: over an virtual adapter with PVID=VLAN desired)(ie. creating an ent10) ent6 is Real Adapter (LACP), bonding ent1 & ent2. ent8 is your virtual adaptar to define VLANs. Best Regards --------- ...
Posted By Humberto Sosa Tue March 08, 2022 10:02 AM
Found In Egroup: Primary Storage
\ view thread
Hi Robert Have a good day! According to IBM SSIC is factible. I performed an exercises with 8.3.x and above. IBM System Storage Interoperation Center (SSIC) Looks like standard virtualization operation (pay attention to versions and host type) Best Regards ------------------------------ ...
Posted By Humberto Sosa Fri January 14, 2022 09:54 AM
Found In Egroup: PowerVC
\ view thread
Hello Rizwan Assuming there is not a RMC issue, usually this link can help you: RMC communication to VIOS is busy or timed out Sometimes this type of error, we primary fixed with VIOS and PowerVC fixes. But, trust me, with the current VIOS levels supported pay attention to have a correct TCPIP ...
Posted By Humberto Sosa Thu January 13, 2022 11:42 AM
Found In Egroup: PowerVM
\ view thread
Hi Helle During concurrent code update, hypervisor and partition firmware updates are normally activated concurrently, without the need to power the system off and back on. For this reason is the warning in section 2.2 and the RMC healthy Regards ------------------------------ Humberto Sosa ...
Posted By Humberto Sosa Tue November 30, 2021 08:03 PM
Found In Egroup: Primary Storage
\ view thread
Hello For contribute with more info: The following is from a V9000: lssystem -delim : total_mdisk_capacity:10.4TB space_in_mdisk_grps:10.4TB space_allocated_to_vdisks:2.26TB total_free_space:8.1TB total_vdiskcopy_capacity:8.18TB total_used_capacity:2.10TB total_overallocation:78 tot ...
Posted By Humberto Sosa Fri November 26, 2021 11:35 AM
Found In Egroup: HMC
\ view thread
Hello Russell Definitely, the sensors exists but for some reason are hidden. Energy Monitoring Maybe in the RAW metrics the fan and psu status are gathered. Another way may be configure and manage your system by using the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI). ipmitool ...
Posted By Humberto Sosa Wed November 24, 2021 11:27 AM
Found In Egroup: HMC
\ view thread
Russell I don´t know if you check it this before. With HMC API, theorically is possible. Regards Below is the HMC Knowledge Center documentation that gets updated periodically to reflect the changes in HMC REST Interfaces. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/POWER8/p8ehl/conc ...
Posted By Humberto Sosa Mon October 25, 2021 06:01 PM
Found In Egroup: Primary Storage
\ view thread
Hello Arturo AFAIK the command would be: svctask chsystem -unmap on (The hostunmap is not a valid syntax) Then, remember that SCI unmap applies to format, create operations. I don´t sure about defrag. But i hope the above lines can help you. Regards ------------------------------ Humberto ...
Posted By Humberto Sosa Wed July 07, 2021 11:23 AM
Found In Egroup: Primary Storage
\ view thread
Khurram In DRAID, there are no dedicated spare drives that are idle most of the time. All drives in the array process I/O requests always, which improves the overall I/O performance. Spare capacity is spread across all member drives to form one or more rebuild areas. So, spare drives in DRAID is ...
Posted By Humberto Sosa Thu June 24, 2021 01:40 PM
Found In Egroup: Primary Storage
\ view thread
Thanks Evelyn Khurram Complementary to item 2, you must review the compatibility table for remote mirroring : Spectrum Virtualize Family of Products Inter-System Metro Mirror and Global Mirror Compatibility Cross Reference For avoid pottential issues and uncompatibility, the oldest storage must ...
Posted By Humberto Sosa Mon June 14, 2021 10:30 AM
Found In Egroup: Primary Storage
\ view thread
Hi John, according to your initial statement,i agree with you in this case is better use LVM to migrate LUNs. Less downtime. The Christian mail is clear about FC. In addition, I can only remember you that if you are using SDDPCM driver in your hosts, in Spectrum Virtualize V8.4 it is withdrawn. ...
Posted By Humberto Sosa Fri April 09, 2021 12:26 PM
Found In Egroup: Primary Storage
\ view thread
Hello Khurram I agree with Mr. Masteen. This techdoc is talking about compatibility cross reference. Depends of the Spectrum Virtualize release. According the table (Inter-system Metro Mirror and Global Mirror support) The version 8.4 (new IBM FlashSystems 5200 delivered ...