IBM SVC: Copy VDisk Host-Mapping from one host to another

Fri, 08 Aug 2014 08:28:32 +0000

As I wrote a few days ago, I started a new job. One of my first (voluntary) tasks was writing a shell script which would copy a VDisk Host-Mapping from a given host to another. This is useful, if you do have a lot of ESX servers for example and a few roaming ones.

Now, if say, you need to do some ESX-Updates and you would like to add the roaming one to a given farm, you would be in a dark an deary place. You would be required to either click through the GUI a dozen times (in my case, it might have needed ~200 clicks) or type svcinfo lshostvdiskmap and svctask mkhostvdiskmap -force (these are incomplete command references) a few times.

Vdiskhostmap on BAFM

IBM SVC: Copy VDisk Host-Mapping from one host to another