I’ve been doing many AIX server migrations lately. Some which involve taking a mksysb and restoring, others which involve presenting LUN’s from a SVC and then doing a migratepv. The latter can result in a large number of disks presented on the host, so I wrote a quick basic script which gives me the details that I need – hdisk name, size, vg, pvid and serial number.
Maybe someone out there will find it useful.
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This is a script I wrote purely from the frustutation of verifying each and every adapter/device attribute which one sets after an AIX installation. What this script does is loop through the list of user defined attributes, and verifies each and every adapter/device against them. The beauty of the script is that it’s very easy to add/modify or remove checks.
For those with any expierence in scripting or coding will understand how array’s work. The script allows you to define your own array elements to add/modify or remove checks against certain adapters/devices.
Currently, the script checks for the following:
I’ve been working with a client who is going through the process of migrating from physical Power 5 servers to a virtualized Power 7 environment with PowerVM. Often referred to as P2V migrations around the IBM office 😛 Due to the I/O limitations in the P5 servers, our only method of migration was to take mksysb/savevg’s of the current servers, create NIM resources out of them, and then restore onto the P7 LPAR’s.
The Power 5 rootvg consisted of two internal disks in a LVM mirror, with the other volume groups backed by either internal disk, or locally attached storage. The Power 7 which we were migrating to had it’s storage provided by a shiny DS8800. Given the boot from SAN solution we had, we no longer required two disks to form the rootvg, as all the mirroring and redundancy was being handled by the SVC’s.
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Very quick and basic shell script to show total/free/used memory on a host running AIX.
kristijan@AIX > ./meminfo Memory Information ================== total memory = 1884 MB free memory = 94 MB used memory = 1790 MB
So I’ve finally got around to building my NAS. It’s a pretty 12TB FreeNAS using RAIDZ…she runs very nicely 🙂 At first, I was using SMB, but found the performance from AFP better, that’s for another post though. For the life of me, I couldn’t find the “Mac” way of auto mounting an AFP share. So being the sysadmin ninja that I am, I just went along and did it my own way.
Luckily for us, the pretty OSX frontend sits on top of a UNIX backend. In short, I ended up using autofs, and it works rather well. Below is how to get it working.
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