Showing posts with label Alternate disk Installation method. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alternate disk Installation method. Show all posts

Tuesday, 12 March 2013

Alternate disk Installation method


1)Create a copy of rootvg to a free disk and simultaneously clone and migrate it to a new version or release level of AIX.

#unmirrorvg hdisk1

#migratepv hdisk1 hdisk0

#reducevg rootvg hdisk1


#alt_disk_install -C  -d /dev/cd0 hdisk1


2)Reboot the server (Boot list will be automatically changed to hdisk1  )

You will found two rootvg disks after rebooting

altint_rootvg

old_rootvg


3)If you found no problem with newer version then

alt_disk_install -X ( This will delete the  old rootvg)

else

Change the bootlist to old disk hdisk0 and reboot the server.

Then execute

alt_disk_install -X ( This will delete  new rootvg  )