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Please check this page first: http://www.getshifting.com/wiki/aixvios Please do not use cfgassist to assign IP address which never works for me. To assign a IP address, please use this command or use smit: mktcpip -hostname vios -inetaddr 10.10.10.10 -interface en0 -netmask 255.255.0.0 -gateway 10.10.10.1 -nsrvaddr 10.10.10.100 -nsrvdomain company.local -start   To enable the regular AIX shell, please type the following command: oem_setup_env After you are in the regular AIX shell,   To find which NIC has the link: entstat -d en[0-9]   To run the smit: smit   To find out network link info: prtconf to find network card info   # entstat -dt en4 ------------------------------------------------------------- ETHERNET STATISTICS (en4) : Device Type: 10 Gb Ethernet PCI Express Dual Port Adapter (7710008077108001) Hardware Address: 00:c0:dd:15:b8:ec Elapsed Time: 0 days 0 hours 0 minutes 0 seconds Transmit Statistics:                          Receive Stati

Read the error message creaful to understand where the problem is -- MAX pps per PV is not big enough or MAX LPs 0516-1162 extendvg: The Physical Partition Size of 256 requires the creation of 1300 partitions for hdisk15.  The limitation for volume group oeclconv_vg is 1016 physical partitions per physical volume. Use chvg command with -t option to attempt to change the maximum Physical Partitions per Physical volume for this volume group. 0516-792 extendvg: Unable to extend volume group. # lsvg newsan VOLUME GROUP:       newsan                   VG IDENTIFIER:  00f719f800004c000000013a0813fbf2 VG STATE:           active                   PP SIZE:        512 megabyte(s) VG PERMISSION:      read/write               TOTAL PPs:      575 (294400 megabytes) MAX LVs:            256                      FREE PPs:       2 (1024 megabytes) LVs:                4                        USED PPs:       573 (293376 megabytes) OPEN LVs:           4                        QUORUM:         2 (Enabl

After login the server as padmin by ssh Last unsuccessful login: Thu Sep 27 08:23:35 CDT 2012 on ssh from xxxxxx Last login: Wed Feb 13 07:44:04 CST 2013 on /dev/vty0 $ lsmap -all SVSA            Physloc                                      Client Partition ID --------------- -------------------------------------------- ------------------ vhost0          U8233.E8B.0619F8R-V2-C3                      0x00000003 VTD                   vtscsi1 Status                Available LUN                   0x8200000000000000 Backing device        dubua003v02 Physloc                Mirrored              N/A VTD                   vtscsi4 Status                Defined LUN                   0x8100000000000000 Backing device        hdisk9 Physloc               U78A0.001.DNWKG3N-P1-C1-T2-W5001738013B50150-L2000000000000 Mirrored              false VTD                   vtscsi5 Status                Available LUN                   0x8300000000000000 Backing device        hdisk11 Physloc               U

fs0:\> dir Directory of: fs0:\   03/07/13  10:44a            1,492,736  0126.bin   03/07/13  10:44a                  953  fwupdate.nsh   03/07/13  10:44a            4,194,304  sandman_578b0.bin   03/07/13  10:44a              452,096  saupdate.efi   12/03/12  10:12a               12,792  .psafe3   03/07/13  10:38a <DIR>          4,096  .Trash-500           5 File(s)   6,152,881 bytes           1 Dir(s) fs0:\> fwupdate.nsh fwupdate.nsh> echo -off ******************************************************************************** ****                                                                        **** ****                        IO CARD FIRMWARE UPDATE                         **** ****            (c) Copyright Hewlett-Packard Company, 2001-2012            **** ****                          All rights reserved.                          **** ****                                                                        **** ****