Mapping a hdisk to a VIO Client

[Germo]

Hi All,

I hope you can help me out here?

On our VIO Server I have allocated a hdisk to a VIO Client but I have incorrectly gave the disk the wrong name and now it is assigned to a Volume Group on the VIO Client. The command I ran is below

mkvdev hdisk8 -vadapter vhost4 –dev NEWSERVER_rootD045

I would like to rename the disk to below, can I do this on the fly? if not how do I change it?

mkvdev hdisk8 -vadapter vhost4 –dev NEWSERVER_D045

Any help would be great.
Thanks

 

[MoreFeo]

I don't think you can do this on the fly. I think you need to do rmvdev (having removed the hdisk from the LPAR) and then do a new mkvdev.

Maybe you could remap the same hdisk to the same LPAR with the force option (-f), and then delete the first mapping, but I'm not sure it would work.

 

[mrn]

Do you only have one VIO, if so no you can't do it on the fly.
If you have two then yes you can.

Mike

"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."

 

[Germo]

mrn,

Thanks for your reply. We do have two VIO server that the SAN disk are shown too.

Thanks