VIOS Advanced Deployment Wizard overview

Using the VIOS Advanced Deployment Wizard, you can complete alternate disk operations, as well as multibos operations for patching the endpoints with a fix pack update.

Alternate Disk operations

• Create a new clone of the current running system to an alternate disk and deploy the fix packs updates to the newly-created clone.
• Deploy fix packs updates to an existing rootvg clone.
• Update the rootvg boot device to identify where the boot device of the current running system is located in the list of boot devices.
• Remove alternate disk volume groups.

Multibos operations

• Create a new standby BOS and deploy the fix packs updates to the newly-created BOS.
• Deploy fix packs updates to an existing standby BOS.
• Update the rootvg boot device to identify where the boot device of the current running system is located in the list of boot devices.
• Remove a standby BOS.

The wizard also provides the following advanced options:

• Preview the installation of the fix packs patches for a selected fix pack.
• Reject filesets that are in the applied state.
• Manage the fix packs on NFS repositories. This includes features such as pre-caching downloads of the fix packs, verifying, and deleting of downloaded fix packs on registered NFS repositories.