Moving Disk from one VIO client to another

Moving Disk from one VIO client to another

• If you want to move hdisk1 from VIO_ClientA to VIO_ClientB.


• Take the backup of /etc/filesystems on VIO_ClientA


• Stop the DB and APP on VIO_ClientA


• Move all the LP's from hdisk1 to hdisk2 and hdisk3 using migratepv hdisk1 hdisk2 hdisk3.


• Check any LP's left in hdisk1 or not using lspv -l hdisk1


• Take the PVID of hdisk1 using lspv grep -i hdisk1


• Remove the hard disk from VIO_ClientA using rmdev -Rdl hdisk1


• On VIO server find the related disk using lspv grep -i "hdisk1 PVID"


• Find the VTD of Physical volume.


• From VIO remove the VTD using rmvdev -vtd vtscsi10


• On VIO Create virtual device with the hdisk on VIO_ClientB using mkvdev -vdev hdisk10 -vadapter vhost3


• On VIO_ClientB run cfgmgr and assign the new disk to volume group using extendvg datavg