Here’s a nice quick one-liner garnered from work to quickly find out which VIO servers and vhosts your VIO client LPAR is using. In my case I needed to be the root user to run this and it’s run on the client itself…
echo "cvai"|kdb|grep vscsi |
Output would be similar to…
read vscsi_scsi_ptrs OK, ptr = 0xF1000000C015F398 vscsi0 0x000007 0x0000000000 0x0 vio022->vhost89 vscsi1 0x000007 0x0000000000 0x0 vio023->vhost89 |
So in this case we are using VIO’s vio022 and vio023. Both VIO’s are using vhost89 for their virtual adapter mappings.
We can also see which vfchosts (NPIV) are used for each virtual adapter (fcs) using…
echo "vfcs"|kdb|grep fcs |
Update : I found this does not work for AIX7, but fear not, instead run:
echo "vfcs" | kdb |
This will show you something like this, which will also give you the VIOS that are being used:
START END <name> 0000000000001000 0000000005860000 start+000FD8 F00000002FF47600 F00000002FFDF9C8 __ublock+000000 000000002FF22FF4 000000002FF22FF8 environ+000000 000000002FF22FF8 000000002FF22FFC errno+000000 F1000F0A00000000 F1000F0A10000000 pvproc+000000 F1000F0A10000000 F1000F0A18000000 pvthread+000000 read vscsi_scsi_ptrs OK, ptr = 0x0 (0)> vfcs NAME ADDRESS STATE HOST HOST_ADAP OPENED NUM_ACTIVE fcs0 0xF100010032A62000 0x0008 vioserver1vfchost44 0x01 0x0000 fcs1 0xF1000100331DD000 0x0008 vioserver2vfchost44 0x01 0x0000 fcs2 0xF100010033952000 0x0008 vioserver1vfchost45 0x01 0x0000 fcs3 0xF1000100340CA000 0x0008 vioserver2vfchost45 0x01 0x0000 |
