[petem]

Thanks for your input Steve,

We are restoring 3 servers with a total of 12 production lpars. I agree with you, having the vendor setup instances prior to the test. I'll be talking with them in the next month to see how this can be achieved. We've tested the restore of our VIO last week. This process worked flawlessly, with the exception of volume groups (other than rootvg). These needed to be recreated as the backupios did not include them. Understandably so..

I think for now... We are good to go. Thanks for your input.

Pete