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  • 1.  VIOS HDD Replacement

    Posted Mon April 20, 2009 07:40 AM

    Originally posted by: kpainfo


    Hi to all,

    I wana clarify something about servicing hardware on VIOS configuration.

    If i had a problematic HDD on RAID, or any other hardware that are virtual to the client partitions, the procedure to replace a HDD concurrently will be the same as standart routine type "diag" from VIOS, etc, or its any additional step to be done from the client partitions?

    I wana be sure for this as we are going to make a replacement on a production machine with 1 VIOS and 4 AIX partitions.

    Regards,

    K.P


  • 2.  Re: VIOS HDD Replacement

    Posted Tue April 21, 2009 11:13 PM

    Originally posted by: cd3lgado


    Hi

    Yeap. Let's say you have a RAID adapter with several disks connected to this one. You have created at least one raid disk (RAID5, RAID10) and you have just created a storage pool and some logical volumes on this raid disk. You have also created virtual scsi server adapters to house your virtual lpars. Now one of your disk is damaged. You can use the diag program to get into the raid adapter menu in order to change that faulty disk without need to stop your VIOS.

    Hope this helps


  • 3.  Re: VIOS HDD Replacement

    Posted Thu April 23, 2009 09:00 AM

    Originally posted by: kpainfo


    Thanks for u info, yes it was very helpfull for me.


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