We recently used software from a company called IO Concepts to virtualize our consoles. I can't give all the specifics, but it seems to be working very well for Operations and the vendor was extremely helpful.
Tammi Marsan MF Performance & Tuning / Hardware -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Todd Last Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 9:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Virtual consoles I'm wondering if anyone is (or has considered) virtualizing their MVS consoles. We are running an z9BC. All our TN3270E consoles (Hummingbird HostExplorer) are attached via two OSA-ICC (Integrated Console Controllers). We have 10 physical Windows XP Workstations running 20 console sessions (master, alternates, hardcopy, vtam, monitors) for three lpars. Instead of 10 physical PCs, I'm wondering if I could attach them to 2 servers running 10 virtual PCs. My concern is the network traffic. Any comments? Thanks, Todd ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
