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  • 1.  AIX VIO with AIX 4.2.1 LPAR

    Posted Thu May 01, 2014 05:33 PM

    Originally posted by: tgx


    I am wondering if I can create an LPAR on my VIO server and install AIX 4.2.1 onto that LPAR?

    Is this a valid configuration or will AIX 4.2.1 have install issues in this environment? We have a legacy

    environment that needs to be replicated.

    Thanks.


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  • 2.  Re: AIX VIO with AIX 4.2.1 LPAR

    Posted Tue May 06, 2014 03:14 AM

    Originally posted by: Wouter Liefting


    AIX 4.2.1 has been out of support for so long that I doubt that this is going to work at all. It probably won't support the processor, but most likely you also will be missing loads of device drivers for stuff like virtual ethernet adapters and virtual SCSI adapters.

    But hey, it only takes a rainy afternoon to try, and your legacy environment is out of support anyway. So there's nothing lost by trying. Your best bet would be to use as little "advanced" features as possible. So use dedicated processors and memory, virtual SCSI and virtual Ethernet and nothing else.


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  • 3.  Re: AIX VIO with AIX 4.2.1 LPAR

    Posted Wed May 14, 2014 05:49 AM

    Originally posted by: TimGilson


    This will simply not work.


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  • 4.  Re: AIX VIO with AIX 4.2.1 LPAR

    Posted Wed May 14, 2014 06:55 PM

    Originally posted by: dukessd


    Hi TGX,

    Tim is right, AIX 4.x simply cannot run on any of the systems that support any kind of virtualization, VIOS or even LPARs, the operating system is simply way too old.

    It is SO old it will not even support the POWER processor, the CHRP architecture (or even PCI cards), all of which are required for VIOS.

    Sorry, you'll need another solution.

    AIX is VERY VERY backwards compatible though so if you can try installing your application on to AIX 5.2 / 5.3 / 6.1 / 7.1 then you may be able to keep it alive.

    Newer instances of AIX support WPAR so if you can install an AIX 6.1 / 7.1 LPAR and then install an AIX 5.2 / 5.2 WPAR onto that, then install your application, you can even still get support even though AIX 5.2 and 5.3 are now past their end of support date because they are still still supported in an WPAR environment.

     

    HTH

     


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  • 5.  Re: AIX VIO with AIX 4.2.1 LPAR

    Posted Wed September 12, 2018 08:21 PM

    Originally posted by: FultonTech


    No.  As far as a PowerPC that you can still buy in 2018, you might be able to install it on a RS6000 43P Model 150, but only with an early level of microcode.  If I recall correctly there was a required microcode upgrade needed to support 4.3 or 5.3 and once it was installed you couldn't go back to 4.1 or 4.2


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