Monday, February 28, 2011

Replacing failed / missing PV on rootvg AIX

Replacing a failed PV when the configuration does not allow the use of the replacepv command (for hdisk in rootvg)

Monday, February 21, 2011

VMware vStorage API (VADP) and TSM 6.2.2

TSM 6.2.2 supports VADP backups:
- VADP for file-level proxy backup
- VADP for Full backups (direct read from VMDK files for backup and restore)
- Auto discovery of New VMware guests (Virtual Machines)

Proxy platforms:
- Windows Server 2003 - 2008 (32 - 64bit, 2008R2 - 64 bit only)
VMware patforms
- ESX / ESXi - 3.5, 4.0 - 4.1

Friday, February 11, 2011

TSM Operational Reporting - Client Schedules - Status - Restarted, Failed, Completed, Future, In Progress, Missed, Pending, Severed, Started, Uncertain

Meaning of status in TSM Operational Reporting of Client Schedules.

Status can be: Restarted, Failed, Completed, Future, In Progress, Missed, Pending, Severed, Started, Uncertain.

Statuses:

   Specifies the status of the event at the time the QUERY EVENT command
   is issued. Possible values are:

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Useful HMC key combintaions: Switch to shell, restart xserver

CTRL-ALT-F1: Switch to Linux command line; no login possible. If you then click on CTRL-ALT-DEL the system will reboot.
CTRL-ALT-F2: Takes you back to the Xserver window.
CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE: Kills of the Xserver and will start a new -fresh- one, so you can login again.

vtmenu - Open virtual console from SSH on HMC

Here is short how to "open vitual console from SSH on HMC"

Login to HMC ant type vtmenu:
hscroot@hostname:~> vtmenu

 Retrieving name of managed system(s) . . . Server-xxxx-xxx-xxxxxxxxx

 ----------------------------------------------------------
  Partitions On Managed System:  Server-xxxx-xxx-xxxxxxxxx
  OS/400 Partitions not listed
 ----------------------------------------------------------
   1)    Partition name                           Running
   2)    Partition name                           Running