Introduction When properly configured, an AIX server can act as : iSCSI initiator : access storage devices using TCP/IP on Ethernet network adapters iSCSI target : export local storage to be...
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Upgrading the IBM Storwize V7000 is an easy procedure without interruption as the storage architecture provides 2 nodes, and upgrade runs on one node before shutting down and upgrading the other no...
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One of my customers had a problem on his Power System (P7) and needed to access the console using an IBM 3153 terminal. We don’t see a lot of this old stuffs (1990s) because many people are ...
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A new firmware level has been released and corrects a serious bug : Storwize V7000 and SVC : 6.3.0.2 (30 March 2012) Storwize V7000 Unified : 1.3.0.5 (2 April 2012) This strange bug due to...
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In our case, iSCSI initiator will be an AIX 7.1 (7100-00-03-1115) and the iSCSI target will be a Storwize V7000 Unified.
A new firmware level has been released and corrects a serious bug :
This strange bug due to a known Linux kernel issue which result in a kernel panic (due to a internal counter overflow) after 208 days of uninterrupted time and reboot of both nodes was affecting SVC controller nodes, Storwize V7000, and Storwize V7000 unified block node canisters.
This issue affects the following releases : 6.2.0.x (excepting V6.2.0.5), 6.3.0.x, 1.3.0.x (for unified)
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