We are looking for an easily transportable, hot-pluggable media to do
mksysb's on. One possibility would be a harddrive or tape drive on our
SAN. Is IBM hardware with AIX able to boot off of a fiber channel
device? Can they boot off of USB or firewire?

Thanks,


Steven.

"Steven M. Carter" <scarter@ornl.gov> wrote in message news:<c139fq$2p0$1@sws1.ornl.gov>...
> We are looking for an easily transportable, hot-pluggable media to do
> mksysb's on. One possibility would be a harddrive or tape drive on our
> SAN. Is IBM hardware with AIX able to boot off of a fiber channel
> device? Can they boot off of USB or firewire?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Steven.

pSeries can boot off FC, but you have to make sure with the maker of
the SAN HW and SW first that it will support booting AIX.
You have to configure your Service Processor to look for bootable FC
Devices.
Caution: if you have a large number of FC disks on the SAN, this can
considerably slow down the boot process.

KB

"Kurt Bremser" <kurt.bremser@allianz.at> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:f4e75396.0402192310.38b5d3ca@posting.google.c om...
> "Steven M. Carter" <scarter@ornl.gov> wrote in message
news:<c139fq$2p0$1@sws1.ornl.gov>...
> > We are looking for an easily transportable, hot-pluggable media to do
> > mksysb's on. One possibility would be a harddrive or tape drive on our
> > SAN. Is IBM hardware with AIX able to boot off of a fiber channel
> > device? Can they boot off of USB or firewire?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> > Steven.
>
> pSeries can boot off FC, but you have to make sure with the maker of
> the SAN HW and SW first that it will support booting AIX.
> You have to configure your Service Processor to look for bootable FC
> Devices.
> Caution: if you have a large number of FC disks on the SAN, this can
> considerably slow down the boot process.
>
> KB

USB and firewire will not work AFAIK. A recent example on how to make AIX
boot from FC EMC or ESS can be found here:
http://users.ca.astound.net/baspence...nnel_boot_note
s.pdf

"Steven M. Carter" <scarter@ornl.gov> wrote in message news:<c139fq$2p0$1@sws1.ornl.gov>...
> We are looking for an easily transportable, hot-pluggable media to do
> mksysb's on. One possibility would be a harddrive or tape drive on our
> SAN. Is IBM hardware with AIX able to boot off of a fiber channel
> device? Can they boot off of USB or firewire?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Steven.

It is possible to boot of a SAN attached hard drive, not sure about
tape, but I believe it is possible. RS/6000's do not have firewire or
USB AFAIK

Steve

Steve Nottingham wrote the following on 20/02/2004 09:04...
> "Steven M. Carter" <scarter@ornl.gov> wrote in message news:<c139fq$2p0$1@sws1.ornl.gov>...
>
>>We are looking for an easily transportable, hot-pluggable media to do
>>mksysb's on. One possibility would be a harddrive or tape drive on our
>>SAN. Is IBM hardware with AIX able to boot off of a fiber channel
>>device? Can they boot off of USB or firewire?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>
>>Steven.
>
>
> It is possible to boot of a SAN attached hard drive, not sure about
> tape, but I believe it is possible. RS/6000's do not have firewire or
> USB AFAIK

Slightly related, and I do think I have posted this before, that
RS/6000s *do* have USB capabilty now. At least the newest pSeries, via
the 2737 adapter. This is currently only for USB k/bs and mice though,
so cannot be used as wanted above. Yet.

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