Close - that ADD is really JOIN. But it worked, no bumps in the night. Thanks Alan.
Marcy "This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation." -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 11:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IBMVM] OSA card replacement procedures On Thursday, 10/08/2009 at 01:36 EDT, Marcy Cortes <[email protected]> wrote: > 1 port of an OSA card has died (the z/OS port). IBM wants to replace the whole > card. The other port is in our VSWITCH LACP group. > > What should be the procedure for taking it out without any network impact (we > have an app that really can't tolerate much of any pause)? > Do we just let Link Aggregation do its thing or issue something from VM to take > it out nicely? Look at the SET PORT GROUP command. 1. SET PORT GROUP xxxx LEAVE rdev.Pnn 2. Vary the devices and the chpid offline 3. Replace OSA 4. Vary the chpid and the devices online 5. SET PORT GROUP xxxx ADD rdev.Pnn Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
