We've been doing this for years, with a few shared disks (including SYSRES (but not SYS ZFS)). With care and no COBOL 5.1 you don't need the plex. Four LPARS total on a z9-l03. z/OS sandbox, ISV sandbox, Development, Production.
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Peter Bishop > Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 8:59 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Sysplex newbie > > Hi, > > I have to ask - why a sysplex when two separate LPARs that don't share > anything may be simpler? It shouldn't cost any more to have separate > LPARs if you're running VWLC, especially since you sound like you're > running the same products in both LPARs. Sysplexes are great if you > need them, but a pain if you don't. > > Just a thought. > > thanks > Peter > > > On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 10:24:39 -0400, Jim Blalock <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >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
