You need to at least start the VIO Server to SMS mode and then (with any luck the fibre card will be active). If you can check the cable you can also check the link lights to see if they are active.
The quickest way to see the WWN is to allocate the card temporarily to the other VIO (via dynamic LPARING) and then read off the WWN that way. You can then remove the Fibre Card again and start up the ther VIO.
The troble is that some SAN Storage devices don't like to allocate LUNS to WWNs that it cannot see - and most SAN administrators don't like doing it either.
BTW what type of P5 are you using? It may still be easier to plug in an additional SCSI card :-)
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