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How to check LUN properties delivered to IBMi

Leave a comment Posted by on November 14, 2018

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

1 Comment Posted by on April 10, 2018

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. Read more of this post

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Live Partition Mobility on IBM i – step by step

1 Comment Posted by on January 20, 2014

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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Administration, External storage, IBM i, PowerVM, VIOS

IBM i with external storage – support matrix

3 Comments Posted by on January 15, 2014

If you wonder what external storage can be directly attached to an IBM i, please check a document at the bottom. Read more of this post

Administration, External storage, Hardware, IBM i

cloning i5/OS

Leave a comment Posted by on July 9, 2012

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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