Re: zFCP LUNs Not Persistent Across Reboot (RHEL 6.6)

2015-07-16 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
after the boot, when you are missing luns, what would happen if you just run /sbin/zfcpconf.sh Would these luns show up? Gregory Powiedziuk 2015-07-16 7:42 GMT-04:00 Offer Baruch offerbar...@gmail.com: Hi... Try having a look at this rhel 6 defect.

Re: zFCP LUNs Not Persistent Across Reboot (RHEL 6.6)

2015-07-16 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
: Grzegorz Powiedziuk gpowiedz...@gmail.com To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU, Date: 07/16/2015 10:55 AM Subject:Re: zFCP LUNs Not Persistent Across Reboot (RHEL 6.6) Sent by:Linux on 390 Port LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU after the boot, when you are missing luns, what would happen

Re: zFCP LUNs Not Persistent Across Reboot (RHEL 6.6)

2015-07-16 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
...@fiscal.treasury.gov 304.480.6733 The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the Government or my agency. Use of this equipment is consistent with the agency’s policy governing limited personal use. From: Grzegorz Powiedziuk gpowiedz...@gmail.com

Re: RHEL7 and Oracle

2015-06-08 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
-certification-100350.html -- G. John Dome Lead Systems Engineer Progressive Insurance -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Grzegorz Powiedziuk Sent: Friday, June 05, 2015 2:57 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: RHEL7

RHEL7 and Oracle

2015-06-05 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
Hi, I am having hard time finding oracle's certification matrix. It seems like they require to have an oracle account on their website (which I have) but with elevated rights (which I don't have). It is almost like they want to make this information a secret. Do you know if RHEL7 (or preferably

Re: RHEL7 and Oracle

2015-06-05 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
:00 Bruno Lima b...@globo.com: Hi Maybe this link can answer your question: https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/LADBN/toc.htm#LADBN102 Cheers *BRUNO J. N. LIMA* +55 98 99199.0123 b...@globo.com Skype: brunoslz www.linkedin.com/in/brunojnlima On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Grzegorz

Re: relocation put read only FCP

2015-01-21 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
What Robert said might be correct. The other thing I would check if that won't help is: - hosts definition on the XIV and Zonning in SAN switches When you relocate virtual machine from one LPAR to another you are also switching FCP channels under the hood for the relocated linux guest. Which

Iaas - SCO vs IBM Wave vs xCat vs zPro

2015-01-20 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
Hello, I am trying to do some sort of a comparison between these products and more digging I do then more I am lost. There are many presentations out there with big words like cloud, orchestrate, cut costs bla bla bla but it is hard get to the bottom of it. Correct me if I am wrong but so

Re: SCSI device issue on RHEL 6.3

2014-11-05 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
Thanks Malcolm for correcting me. With extra information from Mainframe Mainfame I see that it is just about missing configuration. You NEED to have a zfcp.conf file in place with definitions of all your paths with syntax: FCP_SUBCHANNEL TARGET_WWPN LUN_NUMBER It seems like you are not using

Re: SCSI device issue on RHEL 6.3

2014-11-04 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
[0:0:0:1074675744]diskIBM 2107900 .278 /dev/sda [0:0:0:1075527712]diskIBM 2107900 .278 /dev/sdb I've seen that before. I don't like the LUN number - 1074675744 Make sure that in your ZFCP you have it right. I've seen bogus numbers like this when I typed too

Re: SLES 10 SP4 boot issue

2014-09-03 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
Is the 01b0 also a replica from the other datacenter created same way as 01b1? Probably not, because the serial number matches the address 01b0: dasd(eckd): 0.0.01b0: (4kB blks): 108000kB at 48kB/trk compatible disk layout dasda:VOL1/ -- 0X01B0 - Which is not the case with dasd(eckd):

root filesystem on the NFS

2014-08-28 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
Hello, It is possible that it's nothing special and it has been already discussed and done by this group over here many times and I just missed it. But I thought that I will share what I came up with you anyway. Nothing big but it might be interesting for some people. Anyone of you tried running

Re: root filesystem on the NFS

2014-08-28 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
2014-08-28 12:55 GMT-04:00 Grzegorz Powiedziuk gpowiedz...@gmail.com: Hello, If anyone is interested, I am working on a short, general guide for making one of these so I could send it to the group. Someone asked me for a copy of this guide and I've just finished it, so here

Re: defining zfcp devices on SLES11

2014-01-29 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
We have exactly same setup so I thought I could share simple scripts I use for automation. You can run it by executing ./script.sh lun_number (script bellow) XIV uses lun numbers is decimal, and zfcp scripts in linux use hex numbers. Script does dec - hex conversion so you can provide a lun

Re: zLinux, IBM XIV, thin provisioning

2012-06-14 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
Could you tell me, what value do you have in file : /sys/block/sd[x]/queue/discard_max_bytes ? And also it would be interesting to know what output are you getting from : sg_readcap -16 /dev/sda ? I am interested in value for lbpme= And what is your setup? Our is z114 - z/vm - sles11 LUN is

Re: zLinux, IBM XIV, thin provisioning

2012-06-13 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
2012/6/13 David Boyes dbo...@sinenomine.net ... Try xfs. XFS seems to play nice with the XIVs. ... Thanks David. Unfortunately no luck here either. I've mounted XFS filesystem with discard option but it doesn't look like it is doing anything. I've created 2 files with zeros on this fs

Re: zLinux, IBM XIV, thin provisioning

2012-06-13 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
Thanks! I appreciate that! I've done some research and it looks like Veritas is doing WRITE SAME + UNMAP operation to unmap unused blocks. But this can work only if logical block provisioning: lbpme=1. And in my case it is 0 : d2ora000:~ # sg_readcap -16 /dev/sda Read Capacity results:

Re: zLinux, IBM XIV, thin provisioning

2012-06-13 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
2012/6/13 David Boyes dbo...@sinenomine.net What microcode version is your XIV running? According to the hw guys, our box got a recent ucode update, but they didn't record the previous level. 8-(. I think it is one of the most current one : Version 11.0.1.a

Re: zLinux, IBM XIV, thin provisioning

2012-06-13 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
/discard_max_bytes there is 0. thanks Grzegorz Powiedziuk -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex

Re: zLinux, IBM XIV, thin provisioning

2012-06-13 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
2012/6/13 Mark Post mp...@suse.com Those are not the same two mount points. /mnt/thin_test_btrfs /mnt/thin_test_xfs Mark Post Ah, but it is just a copy and paste error. I get the same error on both filesystems (xfs and btrfs) d2ora000:~ # fstrim /mnt/thin_test_btrfs/ fstrim:

zLinux, IBM XIV, thin provisioning

2012-06-12 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
Hi, I am trying to figure out what is best setup for us. We would like to use thin provisioning which is available on XIV (on our FCP LUNs). Unfortunately it does not work very good with ext3 file system. To reclaim some space I have to zero out free space first (after removing files) and than it

Re: zLinux, IBM XIV, thin provisioning

2012-06-12 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
2012/6/12 Grzegorz Powiedziuk gpowiedz...@gmail.com Hi, I am trying to figure out what is best setup for us. We would like to use thin provisioning which is available on XIV (on our FCP LUNs). Unfortunately it does not work very good with ext3 file system. To reclaim some space I have

Re: question migrating an LPAR full of guests to a new machine

2012-05-23 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
2012/5/1 Bruce Lightsey bruce.light...@its.ms.gov In the next two or three weeks we will have to move from our current z9 to a z114 and are trying to look for all of the gotchas involved. We recently did exactly the same jump. NPIV I guess was explained already (we actually implemented NPIV

SLES11 - zfcp_disk_configure bug? (Could not deactivate SCSI disk)

2012-05-15 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
Level 1102 (64-bit) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (s390x) VERSION = 11 PATCHLEVEL = 2 Linux d2ora000 3.0.13-0.27-default #1 SMP Wed Feb 15 13:33:49 UTC 2012 (d73692b) s390x s390x s390x GNU/Linux Regards Grzegorz Powiedziuk

Re: Formating/Partitioning emulated FBA in linux

2012-03-21 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
I haven't been following this thread; so please forgive me if I am rehashing stuff that's already been said. I have used FBA disks in z/Linux for testing purposes. What I do is format them with the CMS FORMAT command, then reserve them with the CMS RESERVE command. Under these conditions,

FCP vs EDEV for system - best practice?

2012-03-20 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
? Both are scsci over fiber so why there is an extra one for XIV? Thanks! Grzegorz Powiedziuk -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX

Formating/Partitioning emulated FBA in linux

2012-03-20 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
fdasd instead of fdisk... Do you know what I am doing wrong? Do I have to create a separate minidisk for each filesystem? I'd like to avoid that... Thanks! Grzegorz Powiedziuk -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Formating/Partitioning emulated FBA in linux

2012-03-20 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
2012/3/20 Rob van der Heij rvdh...@gmail.com Maybe have the box ticked to format the device first? You shouldn't. You can partition it with fdisk but I have not found the magic spell to avoid the not on cylinder boundary warnings. But the approach would be to create mini disks and scatter

Re: Formating/Partitioning emulated FBA in linux

2012-03-20 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
people use mdisk aproach so... I am not going to do experiments on myself! Thank you all. Grzegorz Powiedziuk -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message

zLinux migration from VM to LPAR on another Mainframe

2007-10-08 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
mainframe I don't have the tape drive). Thank you for all replays Grzegorz Powiedziuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO

Re: zLinux migration from VM to LPAR on another Mainframe

2007-10-08 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
filesystems directly on DVD would not be enough. How to prepare this kind disc with ipl ability ? And even If would do ipl, will this small starter linux be able to see HMC dvd drive? Grzegorz Powiedziuk -- For LINUX-390 subscribe

Re: zLinux migration from VM to LPAR on another Mainframe

2007-10-08 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
prepared files) About seeing CD, somehow normal linux installator (for eg. Sles) is able to get rpms from CD? Thank you very much. Grzegorz Powiedziuk -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: zLinux migration from VM to LPAR on another Mainframe

2007-10-08 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
will keep all needed files, download them and do zipl. Should work ? :) Only few hours on LINUX-390 and I know a lot of more, thanks again. Grzegorz Powiedziuk -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

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