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Status Submitted
Workspace AIX
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 30, 2025

Support for disable a device across reboots, FC-adapter.

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VIO server (and std AIX servers), when boot is on local nvme and additional disk (lets say appsvg) in in SAN storage. The extra disk in "appsvg" is used for verification/troubleshooting plus as extra space for various reasons. When one do an alt_disk_install or like task, then the SAN will be searched first then the local disks/nvme due to bus/placement, therfor hdisk0 will in new migrated VM hdisk0 and the rootvg disks hdisk1 and hdisk2 in our setup, not what we would llke it to be.

Idea priority Medium