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  • 1.  WPAR Copy of Global Environment

    Posted Wed December 10, 2008 03:56 PM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    Is it possible to have a WPAR be a complete copy (VGs, file systems, data, etc) of the global environment? Or at a minimum vg/file systems? Thanks in advance.
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  • 2.  Re: WPAR Copy of Global Environment

    Posted Fri December 12, 2008 03:42 PM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    Is this the correct forum for this type of question, or would it be better suited for a different forum? Thanks again.
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  • 3.  Re: WPAR Copy of Global Environment

    Posted Fri December 12, 2008 11:18 PM

    Originally posted by: unixgrl


    so you want a WPAR that has all the same application data and filesystems as your global environment?

    I don't think you can do that via any WPAR command. You'd probably have to look at savevg/restorevg commands and see if you can make them do what you want.

    And yes, this is the correct forum but you can't always expect an answer.
    We're all busy and answer questions when we have free time and if we have some experience on the topic. Not many people are using WPARs yet.
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  • 4.  Re: WPAR Copy of Global Environment

    Posted Mon December 15, 2008 04:52 PM

    Originally posted by: nagger


    This is the Correct Forum - WPARs are a part of AIX 6.

    A WPAR does not have physical resources.
    No disks, no volume group and no logical volumes.

    So no.

    If you opt for private /usr and /opt then it does have a separate copy of the global AIX filesystems
    but this does involve more work in synchronising the global and WPAR copy when you update the global AIX.

    Perhaps you should spell out what you are really after.

    ta Nigel
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  • 5.  Re: WPAR Copy of Global Environment

    Posted Tue December 16, 2008 10:00 AM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    Ideally we would like to use wpars to quickly create sandboxes from our dev/qa environments, and I believe i have found my answer with the document:

    http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/WikiPtype/WPAR

    In section 4 it states that i can simply create a spec file that would list all the mount points I wanted created on the wpar. If i read this correctly, i could simply create new mount points that correspond to the global environment and create the wpar. it would be created with the file systems from the spec file and then the data could be restored. This is of course after i give the wpar the resources from the global environment.

    Thoughts, suggestions?
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