I hope somebody can help me out on this...
We have an LPAR (Ex:tesdev) on p595 with dedicated fiber card (running with 10x50G LUNs/ DS4000 disks)and a dedicated Dual port NIC. I configured dual VIO servers(redundant)and created several vio clients running on this p595. Now, we are planning to make the standalone partition (tesdev) as a virtual client so that it can use the virtual resources. As far as the networking is concerned, I know it wouldn't be a big issue ..I can create virtual etheradapters, remove the original NIC and assign the IP to virtual interface.
My problem is with storage.....
Can we move the same 10x50G LUNs (with data which are running on tesdev right now) which are masked to dedicated dual HBA WWNs to different HBA WWNs (in this case VIO Server HBAs)?
If the answer is yes, then is there any special procedure that I need to follow to create virtual disks from VIO server to client (tesdev)?
I NEED to get the same LUNs and same VGs on those LUNs even after virtualizing the storage.
Thanks!!
We have an LPAR (Ex:tesdev) on p595 with dedicated fiber card (running with 10x50G LUNs/ DS4000 disks)and a dedicated Dual port NIC. I configured dual VIO servers(redundant)and created several vio clients running on this p595. Now, we are planning to make the standalone partition (tesdev) as a virtual client so that it can use the virtual resources. As far as the networking is concerned, I know it wouldn't be a big issue ..I can create virtual etheradapters, remove the original NIC and assign the IP to virtual interface.
My problem is with storage.....
Can we move the same 10x50G LUNs (with data which are running on tesdev right now) which are masked to dedicated dual HBA WWNs to different HBA WWNs (in this case VIO Server HBAs)?
If the answer is yes, then is there any special procedure that I need to follow to create virtual disks from VIO server to client (tesdev)?
I NEED to get the same LUNs and same VGs on those LUNs even after virtualizing the storage.
Thanks!!