AIX Disk Mapping To LPAR

First the disk has to presented to the VIOS and then it will presented to the LPAR.

We look first at which VIO the LPAR belongs.

aixlpar01# lsrsrc IBM.ManagementServer
Resource Persistent Attributes for IBM.ManagementServer
resource 1:
        Name             = "10.0.0.1"
        Hostname         = "10.0.0.1"
        ManagerType      = "HMC"
        LocalHostname    = "10.0.0.2"
        ClusterTM        = "9078-160"
        ClusterSNum      = ""
        ActivePeerDomain = ""
        NodeNameList     = {"aixlpar01"}
aixlpar01#


We connect the VIO with padmin and scan the HBA’s.


$ ssh padmin@10.0.0.1
padmin@10.0.0.1's password:
Last unsuccessful login: Wed Dec 19 16:42:17 GMT+01:00 2012 on ssh
Last login: Wed Dec 19 16:42:47 GMT+01:00 2012 on /dev/pts/0

aixvio01$ cfgdev

Some error messages may contain invalid information
for the Virtual I/O Server environment.

Method error (/usr/lib/methods/cfgqlfscsi -l fscsi2 ):
        0514-061 Cannot find a child device.
Method error (/usr/lib/methods/cfgqlfscsi -l fscsi3 ):
        0514-061 Cannot find a child device.
aixvio01$


Now check for free disks:

aixvio01$ lspv -free
NAME            PVID                                SIZE(megabytes)
hdisk5          none                                153600
aixvio01$

hdisk5 is free but no PVID is assigned.

aixvio01$ chdev -dev hdisk5 -attr pv=yes
hdisk5 changed
aixvio01$

Now we need to find to which LPAR we have to assign (make a note of the LPAR ID).

aixvio01$ lssyscfg -r lpar -F lpar_id,name,state
1,aixvio01,Running
2,aixlpar01,Running
3,aixlpar02,Running
5,aixlpar03,Running
aixvio01$

Now assign the disk to the LPAR:

aixvio01$ lsmap -all | grep 0002
vhost3          U7778.23X.106DA2A-V1-C17              0x00000002
aixvio01$

aixvio01$ mkvdev -vdev hdisk5 -vadapter vhost3
vtscsi9 Available
aixvio01$

Run the cfgmgr on the LPAR:

aixlpar01# cfgmgr
aixlpar01# lspv
hdisk0          0006da2a3cdd9771                 rootvg     active
hdisk1          0006da0ab3df2fa6                 None