Moving Disk from one VIO client to another

Moving Disk from one VIO client to another

If you want to move hdisk1 from VIO_ClientA to VIO_ClientB.

Take the backup of /etc/filesystems on VIO_ClientA

Stop the DB and APP on VIO_ClientA

Move all the LP's from hdisk1 to hdisk2 and hdisk3 using migratepv hdisk1
hdisk2 hdisk3.

Check any LP's left in hdisk1 or not using lspv -l hdisk1

Take the PVID of hdisk1 using lspv grep -i hdisk1

Remove the hard disk from VIO_ClientA using rmdev -Rdl hdisk1

On VIO server find the related disk using lspv grep -i "hdisk1 PVID"

Find the VTD of Physical volume.

From VIO remove the VTD using rmvdev -vtd vtscsi10

On VIO Create virtual device with the hdisk on VIO_ClientB using mkvdev
-vdev hdisk10 -vadapter vhost3

On VIO_ClientB run cfgmgr and assign the new disk to volume group using
extendvg datavg