On Monday, 06/04/2007, Brad Hinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I believe you set them up just as you would any other FCP lun: > > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/s390-multi-i > > nstall-guide/s1-s390info-zfcp.html > > > > If you need to share the tape drive across multiple LPARs, you'll need > > to use NPIV: > > http://linuxvm.org/present/SHARE107/S9257vs.pdf
NPIV has nothing to do with sharing across LPARs. Sharing is simply a matter of giving an multiple LPARs access to different subchannels the same FCP chpid. N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) assigns each subchannel on the FCP chpid its own WWPN so that FC fabric access controls can be applied to each LPAR or guest individually at the subchannel level rather than at the chpid level (as is done on machines without NPIV). To use this support your FC switch must support NPIV. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
