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Workspace PowerVC
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 19, 2016

RELATED IDEAS

assigning another boot disk then remove the old one

The thing is that volume, in the VM, has been alt_disk_copy to another volume. Now the VM is booted on the new volume, so I don't need the old one anymore.
Normally, in a powervm Environnement, I assign a new disk, alt_disk_copy to it, then remove in the lpar and then unmap in the VIO. After that I just delete the disk in the VIO and ask SAN to unmask it.
So the disk relly isn't used in the lpar. It was once a bootdisk but isn't anymore. Maybe I'm not doing it the right way. Assigning another bootdisk is something I do often when admins are doing their upgrades. So I need to have a way to do it again.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Apr 30, 2017

    Thanks for the feedback - this can be done already via PowerVC! Please refer to the blog published here for more details:
    https://developer.ibm.com/powervc/2015/09/28/how-to-replace-your-boot-disk-using-powervc/

  • Guest
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    |     Feb 20, 2016

    Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #84253 in product PowerVC.

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