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Status Delivered
Workspace AIX
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 16, 2015

RELATED IDEAS

MPIO support over AIX ISCSI

MPIO is not supported and does not function on ISCSI connections for AIX. This means that we cannot get redundancy for ISCSI boot drives. We have had to create a manual watchdog script to delete and recreate storage interfaces when the connectivity disappears so the AIX servers can continue to connect. This leads to outages in our most critical environment, becasue IBMK does not support the industry standard for ISCSI. Every other vendor supports MPIO.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 10, 2019

    Included in AIX 7.2 Technology Level 3.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 19, 2015

    IBM Agrees with the request and a solution appears to be desirable and feasible.?? IBM intends to provide a solution. However, IBM's plans may change and no commitment is made that a solution will be provided

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 19, 2015

    Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #78461 in product IBM AIX.

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