>So we can safely exclude dump/load db as a way to move an large adsm server.

One should use a database backup and restore to do this, rather than
dump-load, as the latter are salvage utilities.  Or...

>BTW: Does anyone have an idea how to move an production server from one 
>machine to
>another? The db is resided on SSA disks. So, in theoretically, we can attach 
>the
>SSA loop to the new machine, issue an import volume group and that's it. Has
>anybody done this before?

Yes; it has been discussed many times on the List - see the archives.  You can
do this if the source and destination systems are AIX, at least.

   Richard Sims, BU