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1-1 Test environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2-1 Relationship between physical and virtual SCSI on Virtual I/O Server . . . 19
2-2 Relationship between physical and Virtual SCSI on client partition . . . . . 20
2-3 HMC Virtual I/O Server Physical Adapters panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
2-4 Create Virtual SCSI Server Adapter panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2-5 Virtual SCSI server adapter created on Virtual I/O Server . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
2-6 Matching virtual SCSI client adapter created in client profile . . . . . . . . . . 24
2-7 Virtual Fibre Channel server adapter created on Virtual I/O Server . . . . . 28
2-8 Virtual Fibre Channel client adapter created in client partition profile. . . . 29
2-9 Virtual Fibre Channel Adapter Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
2-10 Virtual Fibre Channel concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
2-11 SAN Switch panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
2-12 SAN port details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
2-13 SAN port device details. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
3-1 Migration from standalone rootvg on local disk to a logical partition. . . . . 44
3-2 Cloning using mirrorvg to a SAN disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
3-3 Virtual Storage Management functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
3-4 Physical Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
3-5 Hard Disk Selection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
3-6 Selection of the client virtual slot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
3-7 Virtual Storage Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
3-8 alt_disk_copy using SAN disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
3-9 Virtual Storage Management Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
4-1 Transition direct-attached storage to Virtual I/O Server managed storage 78
4-2 Client logical partition virtual adapter mapping in WebSM . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
4-3 Client logical partition mapping for access to SAN disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
5-1 Local disk to Virtual I/O Server migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
5-2 Logical Partition Profile Properties panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
5-3 Create Virtual SCSI Server Adapter panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
5-4 Logical Partition Profile Properties panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
5-5 Create Virtual SCSI Adapter Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
5-6 SAN direct attach rootvg and data partition migration to SAN vSCSI . . . 101
5-7 Physical Fibre Channel Adapter to remove from source partition. . . . . . 105
5-8 Fibre Channel adapter added to Virtual I/O Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
5-9 Virtual SCSI Server Adapter Add Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
5-10 Virtual SCSI server adapters added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
5-11 Virtual SCSI Client Adapters Added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
5-12 Migration from direct-attached SAN to Virtual Fibre Channel . . . . . . . . 114