Category: IBM PowerVM

Error after updating IBM Power server to new firmware

Ran into an issue this week after we updated an IBM Power8 S822 to a new firmware revision. In order to perform the update (SV810.21), I first had to update the HMC. I chose to update to HMC version 8.2, including the 3 required fixes. The HMC updated fine. I then updated the first S822,…



AIX NIM NFS issues

Recently ran into a problem with NIM communication between an LPAR and the NIM server. The errors looked like this:   Permission denied rc=175 0042-175 c_mkbosi: An unexpected result was returned by the “/usr/sbin/mount” co mmand:   The problem was that my “/etc/exports” file on the NIM server contained some stale entries that resulted in…



Adding new VLAN to SEA

I have a 2 VIOS SEA failover setup. When adding a new VLAN to the SEA, I create a new Virtual Trunk adapter with the new VLANs to be added. This process has worked well, however the most recent time I performed it on 4 servers, 2 had problems – no traffic whatsoever to the…