Hello, Yes the SYSPLEXes are all physically in the same site. My feel is that it has to be easier/cheaper/less risk to migrate entire LPARs, rather than to migrate application by application. I will read through the red book suggested (also recommended by Kees and Allan.
Thanks On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 9:59 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht < [email protected]> wrote: > Cameron Conacherwrote: > > >I am looking for any information to read that is related to Merging > SYSPLEXes. We have a few SYSPLEXes, each with a couple of LPARs. I wanted > to see how much effort would be involved in collapsing into fewer SYSPLEXes. > > It depends of course. Are these Sysplexes all at one site or not? > > > >Once I collapse say SYSPLEX#7 into SYSPLEX #1, all of SYSPLEX #7 data > would available to SYSPLEX #1, so it would be much easier to migrate > workloads from one LPAR to another. When I use my old friend Google, I get > lots of hits on creating a SYSPLEX, but I wanted to be able to merge two > SYSPLEXes into one. > > Perhaps you should start looking which Sysplex is the surviving one and > then bring all the LPARs of one Sysplex into that. When finished, move on > to the next Sysplex and all their LPARs. And so on with the other Sysplexes. > > > >Can someone point me to some information I could read through that would > help me get my arms around this one? > > What about this Redbook 'Merging Systems into a Sysplex' in > > http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246818.html?Open ? > > Groete / Greetings > Elardus Engelbrecht > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
