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118 PowerVM Migration from Physical to Virtual Storage
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6. Now capture details about the Fibre Channel card if you are going to migrate
it. If you are not migrating the Fibre Channel cards then you can omit this
step. At the time of writing, only the 8 GB Fibre Channel adapter Feature
Code 5735 supports the virtual Fibre Channel (or NPIV) function on a
POWER6-technology-based system.
a. Determine which fiber card would be the candidate for migration by listing
the installed adapters and then tracing the SAN-connected hard disks to
the source Fibre Channel. List the installed Fibre Channel adapters using
the AIX lsdev command:
# lsdev -C | grep ^fc
fcnet0 Defined 00-08-01 Fibre Channel Network Protocol Device
fcnet1 Defined 00-09-01 Fibre Channel Network Protocol Device
fcs0 Available 00-08 FC Adapter
fcs1 Available 00-09 FC Adapter
b. Use the AIX lsdev command to trace back from one of the hard disks and
find the owner:
# lsdev -l hdisk4 -F parent
fscsi0
# lsdev -l fscsi0 -F parent
fcs0
You can now be sure that the Fibre Channel card fcs0 is the correct card if
you were going to migrate it to the Virtual I/O Server partition.
c. Use the AIX lscfg command to obtain the Fibre Channel details. The
WWPN will be shown as the network address of the Fibre Channel
adapter.
# lscfg -vl fcs0
fcs0 U78A0.001.DNWGCV7-P1-C4-T1 FC Adapter
Part Number.................10N8620
Serial Number...............1B80904DC3
Manufacturer................001B
EC Level....................A
Customer Card ID Number.....5759
FRU Number.................. 10N8620
Note: In the example above the Fibre Channel card fcs0 is not capable of
supporting the virtual Fibre Channel (NPIV) function. The steps provided
here are still the correct steps for identification of the Fibre Channel card.