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arl

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Re: Easiest way to clone a LPAR on a different machine?

« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2008, 11:22:15 AM »

We have had a more or less similair excersie, moving from p590q to p570 (both vio).

We used the mksysb method, and this worked quite OK.


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John R Peck

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Re: Easiest way to clone a LPAR on a different machine?

« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2008, 03:15:00 AM »

Within the same physical server, I would use alt disk install to clone a system on to another disk, which with partitioning you should be able to move around and make a new partition out of.

Across servers, as you have a tape drive, why not use that with a good old fashioned mksysb to tape - not the fastest way, but the simplest.


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kondoor

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Easiest way to clone a LPAR on a different machine?

« on: June 11, 2008, 04:23:28 PM »

I have an AIX 5.2 LPAR that I need to backup\restore or clone or copy or whatever the correct terminology is, onto a different server and then upgrade that copy to AIX 6.1 for testing. What is the best\easiest way to do that.

LPAR that needs to be copied is on a P550 with 3 other LPARS no VIO
Server it needs to get copied to is a P510 with 1 other LPAR and a single VIO

I do not currently have a NIM server but could set one up

Both are attached to an IBM DS4300 via fiber for storage, both have some local disk.

We do all our backups with TSM to LTO4 drives over the network. I do my makesysb tapes with AIT3 drives and tapes hooked directly to the servers.

Downtime on this particular LPAR is fairly easy to get if necessary.

What are my options, best practices, easiest way to do what i want?

Thanks
Nate