VIO and AIX 5.3 1

[hfaix]

Does anyone have AIX 5.3 running stable on vscsi from 2 VIO Servers? By this, I mean two VIO's serving up VSCSI and SEA's to Client Paritions? I'm trying to do it with ESS800 Lun's (Both VIO's see the same LUN). I've got it working in a test environment, but my vscsi0 (from vio1) and vscsi1 (from vio2) on client LPAR's never seem to recover well from simulated failures. Some times my client paritions won't boot unless I shutdown a VIO server first.

It seems like I have had support on speed dial from these new "virtualized" technologies.

I'm just curious to see if anyone is tinkering with this.

 

[hfaix]

wow... you've gone to 1.1.2.1? Are you running AIX 5.3 ML2 already?

 

[alfapet]

If you want to connect modems to CLPARs, is it correct that you can not use the internal serial ports of the p5? Do you need to install additional serial adapters, one for each CLPAR and modem, and dedicate these to the CLPARs?

What are the SPCN0 and the SPCN1 ports, located close to the HMC1 and HMC2 ports, used for?

 

[raylin]

On the client we have installled AIX 5.3 ML02 .
On the vio servers with ios 1.1.2.1 the oslevel shows 5300-00 because the rsct and csm lpp's did not get the recommended ML ...

 

[hfaix]

very cool.