On Thursday, 10/08/2009 at 01:36 EDT, Marcy Cortes <marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com> wrote: > 1 port of an OSA card has died (the z/OS port). IBM wants to replace the whole > card. The other port is in our VSWITCH LACP group. > > What should be the procedure for taking it out without any network impact (we > have an app that really can't tolerate much of any pause)? > Do we just let Link Aggregation do its thing or issue something from VM to take > it out nicely?
Look at the SET PORT GROUP command. 1. SET PORT GROUP xxxx LEAVE rdev.Pnn 2. Vary the devices and the chpid offline 3. Replace OSA 4. Vary the chpid and the devices online 5. SET PORT GROUP xxxx ADD rdev.Pnn Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
