Hi, Gary.....
Gary M. Dennis wrote:
We need to put together something approaching a production network
environment for Windows® under z/VM testing.
Well, I don't know how you are going to get Windows to run on z/VM, but
assuming you can......:-)
We don't believe a 500 seat environment would generate any more network
traffic or for that matter be any more complex than the network definitions
for a z/VM Linux server colony.
Yes, I believe that to be true as well.
Has anyone put together a fairly complex multi-guest VM network using
VSWITCH? If so, can you point me to any VM definitions that may have been
shared on this list?
Yes, we have built several z/VM and Linux environments for clients that
are intended to host several hundreds of severs, using VSWITCH.
Depending on the required 'virtual' network configuration (Should each
guest be able to see every other guest? Is there a need for multiple
VSWITCHs to control network load? etc.), it's fairly easy to get this
set up and working.
Which IBM PUB is a definitive cookbook on this?
I would start here:
1) z/VM and Linux on IBM System z: The Virtualization Cookbook for
SLES10 (http://www.linuxvm.org/Present/misc/virt-cookbook-S10.pdf)
2)z/VM VSWITCH with failover
(http://www.linuxvm.org/Present/misc/vswitch.pdf)
3)z/VM V5R3.0 Getting Started with Linux on System z9 and zSeries
(http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/HCSX0B20/CCONTENTS?SHELF=hcsh2a90&DN=SC24-6096-02&DT=20070417154723)
4) z/VM V5R3.0 TCP/IP Planning and Customization
(http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/HCSK5B20/CCONTENTS?SHELF=hcsh2a90&DN=SC24-6125-03&DT=20070424130736)
Watch for line wraps on the URLs above....
Hope this helps and good luck.
Thanks
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Gary Dennis
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