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NIM & VIO Questions

The document contains questions about NIM, VIOS, and networking configuration on IBM Power Systems. Specifically, it asks about creating NIM resources and clients, VIOS configuration including SEA, VLANs, multipathing, and HMC management. It also asks about differences between VIOS versions and common failure scenarios.

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NIM & VIO Questions

The document contains questions about NIM, VIOS, and networking configuration on IBM Power Systems. Specifically, it asks about creating NIM resources and clients, VIOS configuration including SEA, VLANs, multipathing, and HMC management. It also asks about differences between VIOS versions and common failure scenarios.

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NIM :

1. Creation of LPP Source/SPOT ?


2. Creation of SPOT using mksysb ?
3. what will /etc/niminfo will have
4. What are the daemons related to nim server?
5. what is the nim client information files stored in nim server ?
6. what /etc/tftoboot directory will have ?
7. what is /etc/bootptab file for
8. What could be the problem - if ping is fine, but packet not recd from nim client, when we boot from
ethernet of an lpar ?
9. Procedure for configuring nim client ?
10. what are the directories gets exported automatically when configuring nim client for booting ?
11. How to reset a resource of an nim client ?
12. what is push /pull mechanism ?
13. what is the filename shown in nim client booting from n/w card after during packets transfer ?

FYI :
1. Nim Server OS should be the highest to push equal or lower versions of nim
client.


VIO :
1. vios version worked on ?
2. how many vios in the frame - 2 or 4 vios servers ?
3. have configured etherchannel in vios ?
4. what is control channel ?
5. how do you assigned ip address for vioserver ( mean dedicated ethernet adapter or
virtual or over SEA ? )
6. give me the full syntax for creating SEA & adding a PV to a vhost ?
7. how do you find, which is the vhost for an vio client lpar ?
8. how do you find, which is the hmc on an lpar ?
9. what is VLAN ?
10. have you done the failover of SEA manually or tested it ?
11. what is the driver used for multipath, also what storage is used ?
12. what is trunk priority while creating virtual adapter ?
13. have you added additional VLAN ids ? how to do it
14. how to set the path priority of disks from client ?
15. what is the hmc version used ?
16. what is the difference between 1.5/2.1 vios servers versions ?
17. what is the major problem seen with vios failure ?
18. do you knew what is NPIV/LHEA ? ( FYI, THIS IS ONLY FOR YOUR GK )

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