Advanced Power Virt. --Acquiring knowledge tips

[mag007]

My company has recently acquired another company, and some folks are cross training us about APV, and we are taking over some of their servers.

What are some things I should look for when acquiring an environment like this?

Some things I can think of is:
Do the LPARs have dual VIO servers for redundancy?
Is all hardware redundant -- dual NIC, dual fiber, dual adapters, etc...?
Does each VIO server have its own piece of hardware bounded to it, example: each VIO server should have 1 NIC, 1 fiber, and 1 adapter?
Are the Virtual servers (mainly AIX), use 2 different paths for rootvg (1 VIO server + another VIO server)?
What are the Workload manager schemes?


Can anyone think of anything else?

TIA

 

[khalidaaa]

A drawing worth thousand words!

If you can draw all of these parts together with entitled capacities and RAM sizes showing the pathes to the Storage across the VIO(s) that would be great.

The disks partitioning on the SAN and then on the VIOs would be a great document to have as well! you should know whether they are using whole disks for assiging Virtual SCSIs or just LVs and how big are they (space-wize)?

That's on top of my head but if i remember something else i will let you know

Good Luck mag007

Regards,
Khalid