
38 IBM PowerVM Best Practices
Physical and logical volume devices
– lspv
– lsvg
– lsvg -lv VolumeGroup
Physical and logical adapters
– lsdev -type adapter
Code levels, users, and security
– ioslevel
– motd
– loginmsg
– lsuser
– viosecure -firewall view
– viosecure -view -nonint
We suggest that you gather this information in the same time frame as the
previous information.
The /home/padmin directory (which contains the snap output data) is backed up
using the backupios command. Therefore, it is a good location to collect
configuration information before a backup.
3.1.4 Restoring the Virtual I/O Server
Similarly to backups, there are a few different methods ...