Dynamic adjust linux guest's storage

2012-04-11 Thread Lu GL Gao
How to dynamically increase/decrease storage for linux running on z/VM? Assumption: Define LPAR profile with 4G initial and 0 reserved storage. z/VM version is 5.4 User Direct statement for linux guest is USER LNX1 LNX1 1G 2G EG Objective: Dynamically increase/decrease

Re: Dynamic adjust linux guest's storage

2012-04-11 Thread Bruce Hayden
You need the storage to be standby and not reserved. Change your command to: DEFINE STORAGE AS 700M STANDBY 300M As was discussed in another thread, reserved storage is memory that may become available (either to your virtual machine or to an LPAR) but is not currently available. Standby

Re: Dynamic adjust linux guest's storage

2012-04-11 Thread Brad Hinson
On Apr 11, 2012, at 8:15 AM, Bruce Hayden wrote: You need the storage to be standby and not reserved. Change your command to: DEFINE STORAGE AS 700M STANDBY 300M As was discussed in another thread, reserved storage is memory that may become available (either to your virtual machine or to