Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> wrote on 05/01/2012 06:04:40 PM:
> From: Mark Post <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: 05/01/2012 06:17 PM > Subject: Re: question migrating an LPAR full of guests to a new machine > Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> > > >>> On 5/1/2012 at 05:12 PM, Rob van der Heij <[email protected]> wrote: > > Also, the NPIV definitions need to be carried from the old LPAR to the new > > one. Have a look at the "WWPN tool" (from Resource Link) It should help > > preparing the definitions that allow the SAN changes to be made before the > > machine is there. > > If they're using NPIV. Not a lot of people have gotten on that > bandwagon yet, although they should. > > > Mark Post > The latest wwpn tool predicts physical wwpns too. The physical wwpns are the ones that are used when NPIV is off. A physical wwpn starts with several digits of the IO serial number + pchid + 1. For example, pchid 192 on one of the machines that I have access to is C05076FFFC001921. I think physical wwpns are much easier to work with now. Regards, Ray Higgs System z FCP Firmware Development Bld. 706, B42 2455 South Road Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (845) 435-8666, T/L 295-8666 [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
