EMC was/is the biggest IBM competitor in terms of external storage arrays compatible with IBM i OS. Few years ago – EMC was acquired by Dell, but still the company delivers storage compatible natively with IBM i. This connection was possible thru D910 driver embedded into IBM i OS. Different method how IBM storage arrays talk to IBM i OS but still good enough to use NPIV protocol and get decent performance from an external storage array.
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How to check LUN properties delivered to IBMi
Have you ever wonder if a LUN delivered from an external storage to your IBMi Lpar is thin provisioned,encrypted or provisioned thru SSD, you can do it from IBMi. Read below about hidden SST macro.
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How to prevent situation when server IPL may affect SAS controller
Last weekend I had a very unpleasant situation. A server reboot made an entire machine unusable. It was very difficult issue, costing an unplanned outage. Actually, we had all series of unfortunate events that day. I got aged by few years, but also learn there is always a solution, event in a hopeless situation. Read the entire story to avoid a similar problem. Continue reading “How to prevent situation when server IPL may affect SAS controller”
Live Partition Mobility on IBM i – step by step
It’s pretty new feature on IBM i, for AIX its availably since 2007. In VMware world its called VMotion. In my opinion it is still not very popular. Software vendors must still adopt their software for seamless migrations. But IBM gave us a technology which works very well.
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IBM i with external storage – support matrix
If you wonder what external storage can be directly attached to an IBM i, please check a document at the bottom. Continue reading “IBM i with external storage – support matrix”
cloning i5/OS
Big shops from time to time have a demand to prepare multiple OS installation in very short amount of time. Or maybe you want to offer ‘a cloud’ with IBM i to your clients. We all know that scratch OS installation with patching the system afterwards may take several hours.
I want to describe a concept of cloning IBM i OS. Unfortunately it requires an external storage. (I’m not sure if the same functionality could not be achieved with an internal storage and Shared Storage Pools – waiting for your feedback).
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