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114 PowerVM Migration from Physical to Virtual Storage
In Figure 5-12, a direct-attached Fibre Channel adapter is shown with SAN disks
for the client logical partition, which is then migrated to the Virtual I/O Server with
virtual Fibre Channel installed.
Figure 5-12 Migration from direct-attached SAN to Virtual Fibre Channel
In this example the source client logical partition will be migrated such that the
Fibre Channel will be managed by the Virtual I/O Server. For your migration, you
may prefer to pre-commission a new logical partition and establish the virtual
Fibre Channel connection prior to any change window and then perform the
re-mapping phase of the migration at the appropriate time. While the
pre-allocation of a new logical partition method depends on having CPU and
memory resources available, it saves time because you do not need to be
concerned with the direct-attached Fibre Channel adapter until it is required
elsewhere.
In addition, the client logical partition’s direct-attached Fibre Channel card may
not be a supported model for the NPIV function (required for virtual Fibre
Channel), requiring you to migrate to a virtual Fibre Channel capable adapter,
which may already be installed in a Virtual I/O Server.
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