On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Mark Post <mp...@suse.com> wrote: >>> On 5/1/2012 at 03:38 PM, Bruce Lightsey <bruce.light...@its.ms.gov> > wrote: > > Our storage guy asked about NPIV and WWPN names - all I could do was > give him > > my best dumb look ( I'm a dba, not a sysadmin or systems programmer ). > So, > > what should we expect ? I don't think networking or CKD dasd will be an > > issue but I have no idea how the SAN will react to having a different > > mainframe replacing the one it knows. > > You should expect that everything that the SAN sees will be different. > The mainframe should see exactly the same things it does now, assuming the > SAN administrator is able to figure out what the new WWPNs for the z114 are > going to be. That would be a tedious job if it weren't a push-pull. Since > it is a push-pull, I'm not sure how they 're going to be able to do it in a > reasonable amount of time. > > Also, the NPIV definitions need to be carried from the old LPAR to the new one. Have a look at the "WWPN tool" (from Resource Link) It should help preparing the definitions that allow the SAN changes to be made before the machine is there.
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