Re: Installing AIX OS on SAN disks?

I have installed AIX onto 2 EMC SAN drives via a nim server in an lpar.
These emc drives are my bootable drives. The install was a snap and this
lpar works great.
EMC documentation was right on.
If you have specific questions send me an email.



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Hi Drew,

I was able to find them @ https://powerlink.emc.com
Under;
Support, Documentation, PowerPath.

Let me know if you want me to send you what I have.

Thanks
John


John Riordan
MCS UNIX Engineering Services
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John,

Can you point us to the documentation that IBM offered you on how to
install AIX on SAN disk?

Thanks,

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I would direct you to EMC's web site, there are a several good documents
on
how to do this. Plus you can download all the software there.

You will need to install the driver for the Clariion:

EMC.CLARiiON.fcp.rte 5.2.0.3 COMMITTED EMC CLARiiON Fibre
Channel

Plus install Navisphere and Power Path.

Power path runs in 2 modes: If no license key is entered you get basic
failover, with a license key you get load balancing as well. Power Path
is
licensed by the frame (p650, p570, etc).

Loading the OS on the SAN disk is pretty straight forward, just make
sure
there is only one path to the disk (a single HBA). Do not introduce the
2nd HBA (second path for mpio) until Power Path has been installed and
configured.

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Hello all,

I received some documentation from one of the IBM Global Services
Specialist on how to install AIX on a SAN storage disk. According to
the
documentation I have, you can install a couple different ways. I found
some more documentation on the Dell/EMC site and this seems to be a
little
older than the one I received from IBM. Again, a few different ways
that I
can go about the install. I was hoping to find someone that has had a
successful install of the OS and maybe point me to some more
documentation
on this subject. I have a call logged with support, as I had some
general
questions, but I was told they would have to call me back.
Any advice, or problems you can share would be greatly appreciated.


Configuration:
Dell CX600 CLARIION..
IBM p570 AIX 5.3 TL04
EMC PowerPath 4.5.2 Navisphere 6.19

Thanks in advance,
John



John Riordan
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