I would cable it up and use it! Then if one fails you fail over immediately, no loss of I/O or downtime while our cabling up the new one.
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Sherry Everhart <severh...@maccnet.com>wrote: > Hello, Everyone. > > This is my first post to this User Group. Thanks in advance for your help. > > > > I have a question… > > > > We are running five VSE guests under VM and recently experienced a hardware > failure. This has led us to investigate the possibility of installing a > “spare” so that we’re not down if we have another failure in the future. > > > > Is it possible to configure an installed piece of hardware to be used (for > redundancy) in case another one fails? Let’s say that I want a FICON card > that is not cabled up to be available for use, without an IOCP change (i.e. > POR) in case the FICON card I’m using goes bad. I need it to be available > to all the same devices as the one that’s cabled and configured so that I > can pull the cable off the bad and put it on the empty one. But the problem > I’ve run into is the “build” of the IODF fails with the following message: > > *ICP ICP230I CONTROL UNIT 0440 PREVIOUSLY DEFINED > > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > > Thank you, > > Sherry > > > > *Sharon J. Everhart | Sr. Systems Programmer*** > > *MACC | *111 Admiral Drive *|* PO Box 700 *|* Blair NE 68008-0700 > > Office: 402.533.5138 *|* www.maccnet.com > > > > ------------------------------ > Confidentiality Notice: The information transmitted is intended only for > the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential > and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or > other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by > persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you > receive this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material > from any computer. > -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
