P590 New Disks and Cards Installed

[romecoyle]

Hi,

I'm relatively new to the AIX world so I was wondering if someone could help me out. The guy I took over for got fired about one week ago so just assume I know nothing about AIX and I will not be offended.

We just had our P590 upgraded here and I was wondering if there was some sort of command or utility I could run against the P590 that will tell me what resources be they HBAs, NICS, or disks are currently unallocated to existing LPARS so that I may decide whether or not they can be used to configure new LPARS. Does this make any sense to anyone? I could clarify if necessary. I guess you could say that I'm looking for a sort of discovery utility. Anyway, any help you could give will be appreciated.

Thanks,
Will

 

[p5wizard]

On the HMC you can find out if a specific adapter slot is allocated to an LPAR. If you find slots with storage adapter cards that are unallocated, you can try and dynamically allocate them to an LPAR, then afterwards you have to run cfgmgr on that LPAR to discover the new hardware. HMC will not show devices attached to adapter cards, only the type of adapter card in a slot.

Also on your LPARs, you can use "PCI hot plug task" in diag to identify all your hotplug PCI slots and hence the adapter cards contained therein. That info, together with lsdev -C and/or lscfg (lscfg -v) will give you an idea what's what/where in your server.

You ex-colleague should have left some documentation as to which LPAR has which resources...

HTH,

p5wizard

 

[madmurdock]

Regarding to the first answer to your question, you can find unallocated resources in your server in web based system manager utility. Right-Click on the server and choose properties. There you can find the tab "processors", "E/A" and "Memory". Look for the column "owner".

regards

mad

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