Since you plan to use portability of vg along with SAN. Here is my 2 cents that may help you better. I don't know if you have SSA drives in SAN or directly connected to host, but it would work anyway you plan. AIX5.2ML2 should allow you to make mksysb with any driver necessary to clone your box in any 'chrp' box. So, if you have only 2 copies of mirred rootvg, you can make a 3rd one from ESS and change the bootlist and boot off of it. Then, shutdown the box, move 3rd rootvg copy on ESS to your new box. Let it see or go to SMS to change mutliboot... Viola! Just an idea. Make sure with your network core switches set with the same VLAN or subnet. I don't know if you have HA set on these hosts, but one more thing that you can try with SAN...
Gus Jin Bae Chi (Gus) System Administrator Data Center, CSCC 614-287-5270 614-287-5488 Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/19/04 8:13 AM >>> Hi, thanks for your answer. Yes I want to migrate all data from disk to our library and start a DB-Backup. So I want test it..... Best regards, Frank "Hooft, Jeroen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORIGIN.COM> Kopie: Gesendet von: Thema: Re: change TSM server to a new AIX box. What is the way? [Virus checked] "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] EDU> 19.10.2004 13:55 Bitte antworten an "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" That should work, I moved 2 TSM-servers using this method (one with SSA-disks and one with ESS-luns). To be on the safe side, I first migrated all data from disk to tape and made a DB-backup -----Original Message----- From: Frank Mueller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: dinsdag 19 oktober 2004 11:03 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: change TSM server to a new AIX box. What is the way? [Virus checked] Hi, our TSM Server (Version 5.1.8) is a SP wide node (AIX 5.2_ML02). Now I want change the server to a new pSeries standalone p615. Our TSM-diskstoragepool, the database and the logs are on SSA-Disks. So I think that I must install the new node with the same AIX level and TSM level (mksysb is not so easy, because it is a SP-node). After this I stop the old TSM server. Connect the ssa disks on the new node, import the volumegroups, change the ip configuration on the new node (so that it is the same as on the old server), connect the library, mount filesystems, check that device conf, volhis, database and logs are in right path and than I can start the TSM-Server. Is this the way? Best regards, Frank