NetApp FAS 2554, sharing out iSCSI volume.
iSCSI LUN exported to AIX Power8 host running VIOS (IBM's Hypervisor.)
I need to ship these VMs (LPARs in IBM speak) across country by Friday.
NetApp is staying, alternate storage is to be used for the move.
VIOS has zero intelligence about moving virtual disks onto a different "storage pool."
(VMware would simply let you do a "Storage Only Migration" - point, click, done. Does not exist in VIOS.)
I built another iSCSI based storage pool (datastore) in the hopes of copying the images, but again, no tools to do the job.
1) Need to know how to tell if NetApp volume is FILEIO or BLOCKIO.
2) Need to know how to clone this NetApp iSCSI volume onto an Openfiler volume (also iSCSI, and already mounted on the Power8 host.)
3) Need to be able to reattach the copy and recover the LPARs once they arrive and when the device IPs change.
So, any IBM'ers with mksysb experience want to walk me through how to backup and restore, because that's my last option....
Many thanks!