In
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 03/23/2007
at 02:32 PM, Andy White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> first please don't flame me. I know this is to talk about z/OS not VM but
> had a question.
Flame you for what? While you will find a heavier concentration of VM
expertise elsewhere, your question is perfectly on topic for IBM-MAIN.
>We are starting to run Linux under z/VM for applications we will be
>porting over to it as away to consolidate work. Since my unit is
>responsible for the mainframe and the OS we also do z/VM installs
>etc. I am asking for a test environment for z/Vm so if new versions
>come out of Websphere/ Linux or z/VM we have a place to put it on.
>The person doing it said no the best thing to do is run the new
>version a second level VM system and we can test anything new in
>it.
How is that not a test environment? However, if your z/Linux
applications have no VM dependence, then you can run them under your
production z/VM.
>What is best practices in this area.
AFAIK, best practice has always been to test a new VM release second
level unless there were specific reasons not to. That was certainly
the case in the VMF/370, VM/SE and VM/SP days, and I suspect that it
was true in the CP/67 era as well.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO
Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
