Re: SAN booting?
From: Nimal (nimal.abhaya_at_cegetel.net)
Date: 08/06/05
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Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 23:00:07 +0200
Mike wrote:
> This message appeared back in Jan 05 on an ADSM list.
> Does anyone have any thoughts on the subject or data
> presented below?
>
> I want to consolidate my power3 and power4 servers
> to power5 and to boot those LPARs from a SAN.
> I'm attaching the last message I saw.
>
> Mike
>
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> From: Jin Bae Chi <Jbaechi@CSCC.EDU>
> Subject: Re: SAN Booting
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
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> SAN booting using virtual engines such as IBM SAN Volume Controller
> would not be an easy task, especially if you have ESS, FAStT and
> Symmtrix under SVC, because its true mutipathing scheme. You need to
> restrict to the only one path for booting time and reenable the
> multipath afterward. You may think twice if this would be a possibility
> in the future. SAN routing also is coming very soon and that would be
> another issue if you want to consolidate all booting resources for
> multiple location.
>
> Also, with advanced virtual I/O server on new pSeries, POWER5 with AIX
> 5.3, your zoning would be another challenge for booting because multiple
> LPAR hosts can be sharing the same HBAs and I don't know how SAN switch
> would take them with same World Wide names. Just a few more thoughts on
> planning. Thanks.
>
>
>
>
>
> Jin Bae Chi (Gus)
> System Administrator
> Data Center, CSCC
> 614-287-5270
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> jbaechi@cscc.edu
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Hi,
I'm doing SAN Boot on aix 5.2 with SDDPCM on ESS 2105-800 LUNs without
any Pb; On aix 5.1, with SDD, we do it too, without multipathing. Thi is
an eas task, do not afraid, it works.
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