LPM - Live Partition Mobility - Preparation steps.

 LPM

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Moving a partition from one physical server to another without downtime.


1. NPIV - two wwpns for a FCS.

LPM - good only with NPIV


1. create zoning with secondary wwpn

SAN team will multi map the LUN on the other machine.


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