I read this after I sent my last email... Sorry. While these are good points, how would one go about learning the best way to address each of those areas? Is there a white paper, redbook, anything at all documenting a reference implementation?
If not, it's no place for the VM system prog with less than a few years of VM experience to be wading into unless they want to be wading for a long time and have mastered good backups and disaster recoveries. Marcy "This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation." -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 1:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IBMVM] Where is z/VM CSE On Wednesday, 07/29/2009 at 11:41 EDT, Rob van der Heij <[email protected]> wrote: > Looking at the part of future that IBM already shared with us about > z/VM 6.1, it is not unlikely that your investments on implementing CSE > today will be wasted once the goodies in z/VM 6.1 become available to > you. You may find yourself in the middle of your project with no > further supply of the parts you need. If you're not doing CSE today, I > would suggest to see whether you can postpone that project (even when > you can't go to z/VM 6.1 you might still want something that fits the > model that IBM will ship). The things you learn while implementing CSE (any or all of it) will prove invaluable in the transition to the "single system image" of the future: - Maintaining a common directory - Maintaining a common security context - Managing cross-sytem LINKs (incl. MDC) - Dealing with cross-system spool - Messaging - Applying service - Workload management - DR management - LPAR cloning and others. So while CSE includes a set of technologies, it is first and foremost a change in how you perceive and manage a set of z/VM images in order to provide higher levels of virtual server availability and of data integrity, both with as little administrative overhead as possible. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
