Before reading books on Sysplex mechanics, and it certainly is less challenging with a basic Sysplex, You should ask yourself what objectives you are trying to accomplish. The first objective should be Availability. For complete High Availability and Continuous Availability, you would actually need a Coupling Facility for a Parallel Sysplex. A Parallel Sysplex has a bit more complexity in the Capacity Planning areas and the logistics of Recovery. The mechanics are really not difficult: there is pre-positioning Your current environment, defining the Sysplex, and then implementing it. Are you planning to divide the DASD farm? Is everything to be shared? Is it OK to have Development access Production data? There is a some considerations to think about; so be careful moving forward. All of the Redbooks are an excellent start to understand what you'll need. Be sure to ask question here. Many of us will have definite opinions for you.
zNorman -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 8:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Sysplex newbie Have you reviewed the REDBOOKS on setting up a SYSPLEX? Have they been helpful? http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg242079.html http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246485.html http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247817.html http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg245235.html http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246818.html http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg244356.html http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246485.pdf Lizette -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Blalock Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 7:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Sysplex newbie Hi folks, We have a single z10, and would like to split its main partition into production and developer partitions. Capacity should be ok. We're looking at all the stuff we need to worry about sharing, like GRS, spool, RACF, RMM, HSM, catalogs, virtual tape, etc etc. But underneath it all, we probably need to set up a sysplex. Keep in mind that we've never set up a sysplex before or done any real sharing beyond shared DASD, so there will be dumb questions. I think a basic sysplex will be enough, that way we won't need a coupling facility. We will need a way for them to talk to each other (and probably with one or two sandbox lpars), so I'm looking into CTCs. The question I haven't found an answer to is how to use CTCs without an escon or ficon switch; we have spare channels and I want to do this on the cheap if I can. I'm still reading about it, but any insight would be appreciated. Thanks! -- -- Jim Blalock z/OS Support Manager CCIT, Clemson University (864) 656-3680 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
