INSTALLING VIO SERVER

IBM VIRTUAL I/O SERVER

The Virtual I/O Server is part of the  eServer p5 Advanced Power Virtualization hardware

feature. Virtual I/O Server allows sharing of physical resources between LPARs including virtual

SCSI and virtual networking. This allows more efficient utilization of physical resources through

sharing between LPARs and facilitates server consolidation.

 INSTALLATING A VIO SERVER USING CDROM

You have Three options to install the AIX-based VIO Server:

1. Install from CD by booting lpar from cdrom

2. Install from network via an AIX NIM-Server

3. Install from cd using hmc

Installation method #1 is probably the more frequently used method in a pure Linux

environment as installation method #2 requires the presence of an AIX NIM (Network

Installation Management) server. Both methods differ only in the initial boot step and are then

the same. They both lead to the following installation screen:

Elapsed time since release of system processors: 51910 mins 20 secs

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Welcome to the Virtual I/O Server.

boot image timestamp: 10:22 03/23

The current time and date: 17:23:47 08/10/2005

number of processors: 1 size of memory: 2048MB

boot device: /pci@800000020000002/pci@2,3/ide@1/disk@0:\ppc\chrp\bootfile.exe

SPLPAR info: entitled_capacity: 50 platcpus_active: 2

This system is SMT enabled: smt_status: 00000007; smt_threads: 2

kernel size: 10481246; 32 bit kernel

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The next step then is to define the system console. After some time you should see the

following screen:

******* Please define the System Console. *******

Type a 1 and press Enter to use this terminal as the

system console.

Pour definir ce terminal comme console systeme, appuyez

sur 1 puis sur Entree.

Taste 1 und anschliessend die Eingabetaste drücken, um

diese Datenstation als Systemkonsole zu verwenden.

Premere il tasto 1 ed Invio per usare questo terminal

come console.

88 Help ?

This is the main installation menu of the AIX-based VIO-Server:

Welcome to Base Operating System

Installation and Maintenance

Type the number of your choice and press Enter. Choice is indicated by >>>.

>>> 1 Start Install Now with Default Settings

2 Change/Show Installation Settings and Install

3 Start Maintenance Mode for System Recovery

88 Help ?

99 Previous Menu

>>> Choice [1]:

System Backup Installation and Settings

Either type 0 and press Enter to install with the current settings, or type the

number of the setting you want to change and press Enter.

Setting: Current Choice(s):

1 Disk(s) where you want to install ...... hdisk0

Use Maps............................. No

2 Shrink File Systems..................... No

3 Import User Volume Groups............... No

4 Recover Devices......................... No

>>> 0 Install with the settings listed above.

+-----------------------------------------------------

88 Help ? | WARNING: Base Operating System Installation will

99 Previous Menu | destroy or impair recovery of ALL data on the

| destination disk hdisk0.

>>> Choice [0]:

Selection of disks:

Change Disk(s) Where You Want to Install

Type one or more numbers for the disk(s) to be used for installation and press

Enter. To cancel a choice, type the corresponding number and Press Enter.

At least one bootable disk must be selected. The current choice is indicated

Name Location Code Size(MB) VG Status Bootable Maps

1 hdisk0 03-08-00-3,0 70006 none Yes No2 hdisk1 03-08-00-4,0 70006 none Yes No

3 hdisk2 03-08-00-5,0 70006 none Yes No

4 hdisk3 03-08-00-8,0 70006 none Yes No

>>> 0 Continue with choices indicated above

55 More Disk Options

66 Devices not known to Base Operating System Installation

77 Display More Disk Information

88 Help ?

99 Previous Menu

Choice [0]:

Now start the installation.

Installing Base Operating System

Please wait...

Approximate Elapsed time

% tasks complete (in minutes)

8 0 1% of mksysb data restored.

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Welcome to the Virtual I/O Server.

boot image timestamp: 17:44 08/10

The current time and date: 17:46:01 08/10/2005

number of processors: 1 size of memory: 2048MB

boot device: /pci@800000020000002/pci@2,4/pci1069,b166@1/scsi@0/sd@3:2

SPLPAR info: entitled_capacity: 50 platcpus_active: 2

This system is SMT enabled: smt_status: 00000007; smt_threads: 2

kernel size: 12405120; 64 bit kernel

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Saving Base Customize Data to boot disk

Starting the sync daemon

Starting the error daemon

System initialization completed.

Setting tunable parameters...complete

Starting Multi-user Initialization

Performing auto-varyon of Volume Groups

Activating all paging spaces

0517-075 swapon: Paging device /dev/hd6 is already active.

swapon: Paging device /dev/paging00 activated.

The current volume is: /dev/hd1

Primary superblock is valid.

The current volume is: /dev/hd10opt

Primary superblock is valid.

Performing all automatic mounts

Multi-user initialization completed

System reconfiguration in progress. Please wait.

Rebuild of Scriptinfo file is complete

Checking for srcmstr active...complete

Starting tcpip daemons:

0513-059 The syslogd Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is 217224.

Aug 10 12:46:40 localhost syslog:err|error syslogd: /tmp/syslog.out: errno = 2

0513-059 The sendmail Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is 180374.

0513-059 The portmap Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is 69844.

0513-059 The inetd Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is 118936.

0513-059 The snmpd Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is 184462.

0513-059 The hostmibd Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is 131306.

0513-059 The snmpmibd Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is 172216.

0513-059 The aixmibd Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is 204952.

0513-059 The muxatmd Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is 164006.

Finished starting tcpip daemons.

Starting NFS services:

0513-059 The biod Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is 176302.

0513-059 The rpc.lockd Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is 262390.

0513-059 The ctrmc Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is 229540.

Completed NFS services.

IBM Virtual I/O Server

login:

3 Initial setup

After the reboot you are presented with the VIO-Server login prompt. Login as special user id padmin. No initial default password is set. Immediately after login you are forced to set a new password.

[compat]: 3004-610 You are required to change your password.

Please choose a new one.

padmin's New password:

Enter the new password again:

The following file has been updated: .profile

Changes will take affect at next login.

Before you can do anything you have to accept the I/O Server license. This is done with the

license command.

The I/O Server license must be accepted before running this command.

Only the chlang command may be run before accepting the license.

To view the license, run the license command with the -view option.

If the -lang flag is not specified the license will by displayed in

the current locale (set by the chlang command). If the license is not

available in the language selected, English will be the default.

To accept the license, run the license command with the -accept option.

Locale currently set to: "en_US".

Usage: license [-view] [-accept] [-lang Name]

license [-ls]

View and accept the I/O Server license agreement.

-accept Accept the license agreement.

-lang Specifies the language-territory (locale name) the license

is displayed in.

-ls Lists available locales.

-view Displays the license agreement.

Please enter:

license -accept

Once you are logged in as user padmin you find yourself in a restricted Korn shell with only a

limited set of commands. You can see all available commands with the command help. All these

commands are shell aliases to a single SUID-binary called ioscli which is located in the directory

/usr/ios/cli/bin. If you are familiar with AIX you will recognize most commands but most

command line parameters differ from the AIX versions.

Asking help in vio

As there are no man pages available you can see all options for each command separately by

issueing the command help . Here is an example for the command lsmap:

VIO LSMAP COMMAND SYNTAX

$ help lsmap

Usage: lsmap {-vadapter ServerVirtualAdapter | -plc PhysicalLocationCode |

-all}

[-net] [-fmt delimiter]

Displays the mapping between physical and virtual devices.

-all Displays mapping for all the server virtual adapter

devices.

-vadapter Specifies the server virtual adapter device

by device name.

-plc Specifies the server virtual adapter device

by physical location code.

-net Specifies supplied device is a virtual server

Ethernet adapter.

-fmt Divides output by a user-specified delimiter.

A very important command is oem_setup_env which gives you access to the regular AIX

command line interface. This is provided solely for the installation of OEM device drivers.