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AIX SAN Boot: Pros, Cons, and Mitigations by Yulin Liu is a document available to read on EtoBox.

Booting AIX from SAN storage provides advantages like improved I/O performance but also disadvantages including difficulties capturing system dumps if SAN access is lost and challenges updating multipathing drivers. Several options can help mitigate these disadvantages, such as configuring dedicated dump devices on local disks, careful planning for multipath driver updates, and avoiding multipathing for the root volume group. Moving an AIX rootvg between servers is generally not supported and may cause issu

Author

Yulin Liu

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EN