Restoring mksysb from POWER4 to POWER5

[patounet]

I have a new AIX serveur with POWER5 architecture and iwould restore an mksysb made from an POWER4, It do not work properly. Can anyone tell me it's possible to do that ?
Thanks for your help
Patrick

 

[hfaix]

What operating system are you running?

 

[plamb]

the power4 system has to be at AIX5.2 ML4 that is the min per IBM

 

[DukeSSD]

I think Plamb meant to say the power5 minimum is AIX 5.2 ML4.
So make sure your power4 system is 5.2 ML4 and you will also need to do a Migration install / restore to the power5 machine, so you will need IBM AIX install media (CD) of at least AIX 5.2 ML4 and it must be the same level / ML as the system yor are trying to restore.
When you need to load a power5 machine you need apars / ptfs to get it running as intended, so if you load 5.2ML4 or higher or 5.3, check the IBM website and pick up the latest patches once it is loaded.

 

[patounet]

thanks everybody
the power4 & power5 system are at ML4 (5.2). The hardware is not the same (scsi, rootvg, etc...), should I modify stanzas in the image.data file.
Patrick

 

[AIX5L]

Hi, If you have a prompted Restore then you dont need to modify your bosinst.data or image.data

If you make the Restore with NIM then you need to modify your image.data and bosinst.data

I prefer to work with NIM because i had problems with CD Restore an the Kernel Version.

 

[patounet]

Thanks.
I have restored my mksysb on this new machine and I want to to recover VG but my san is not connected dor the moment, how can i see my VG in any case or should I restore them when I connect my san ?

 

[plamb]

if the san has your vg intact just have it zoned for your new adapters then import and varyon , and mount

 

[patounet]

Yes my VG are instacts, but how can i make this for recover us ? wich commands ?
thanks !

 

[patounet]

NEW MESSAGE:

In fact i've made an generic mksysb and ihaven't got my VG in CuDv and how can i recover them ?

Regards

Patrick

 

[plamb]

import; varyonvg; mount

 

[patounet]

It doesn't work. AIX can't see my hdisk(x) or there is no PVID

 

[AIX5L]

Hi

cfgmgr
lspv -> Do you see Disks ?
If not check Connections, SAN, Firmware Level
If you see the Disk:
chdev -l <hdiskx> -a pv=clear
chdev -l <hdiskx> -a pv=yes
importvg -y <vgname> <hdiskx>

 

[plamb]

has the san been zoned for your new HBA's

 

[patounet]

It's Ok now.
Many thanks.