Recently I started checking up on several "older" disks formating and certifying them to be sure disk problems were not going to be the cause of problems during HACMP classes.

Basically, there are four generic DISK_ERR mesages, that are repeated for each disk type, e.g. SCSI, SSA, FC, etc., and have their own specific label. The meaning of the 4 messages is the same for all media. 

To my surprise getting the WPAR Manager product installed actually took several attempts to get it right.

In this article I"ll run thru the steps with comments and output. As a bonus I'll also include some of the errors I ran into and also what I did to correct the situation. In short, with the proper preparation installing Workload Partition Manager is quite easy. However, getting the right environment can take some time.