How to move CD-Rom b/w LPARs

First check availability of cdrom on Source machine

Source :/>lsdev –Cccdrom

Cdo Available IDE DVD-RAM0

Second check slot in which cdrom attached.

Source :/>lsslot –c slot

# Slot Description Devices

xxx xxxxx Pci4 ento

xxx xxxxx Pci5 ent1

xxx xxxxx Pci2 scsi0

xxx xxxxx Pci3 ide0

Third remove cdrom from slot (pci3 ide0).

Source:/>rmdev –dl pci3 –R

Source:/>lsdev –Cccdrom

Source:/>

(no drive available means cdrom remove)

Fourth Go to HMC right mouse click source partition and select “Dynamics Logical Partitioning” Select Physical Resources” Select “Move” I/O...Move

Select device and move to destination.

***PLEASE DO NOT CONFUSE YOURSELF WITH IMAGE***

Select the “Bus” and dropdown the Slot as mentioned in step Two (Pci3 ide0)

***PLEASE DO NOT CONFUSE YOURSELF WITH IMAGE***

Select the desired bus and verify the desired device in located under the Bus, select Target machine and press move button.

Fifth login destination machine.

Dest:/>lsdev –Cccdrom

Dest:/>cfgmgr –V

Dest:/>lsdev –Cccdrom

Cdo Available IDE DVD-RAM0

How to move CD-Rom b/w LPARs

Now go to the target server and apply the following command to access CD-Rom Content

mount -rv cdrfs /dev/cd0 /cdrom

!!!You are done!!!