In a message dated 8/29/2002 7:41:50 PM Mountain Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > It'll have 4 NIC cards, one will be used for SE and LAN3274 consoles. > > 3 will be available for IP and SNA (not sure if we'll have a > > need to demo > > SNA) > > > > Suggestions for design? > > Dedicate two of the adapters to Linux guests and use guest LANs to connect > VM TCP and the z/OS systems. Use CTC interfaces in Linux guests to connect > to the VSE and OS/390 systems. Keep the 3rd adapter in case you have to do > SNA. > > David, Could you expand on this alittle? Why dedicate two adapters to Linux guests (assuming you mean guests under z/VM). Why not run these Linux "routers" in dedicated LPARs and isolate them from other images? And...I don't know enough yet about z/VM, excuse my ignorance...but why is there a z/VM guest and then a separate z/VM TCP guest?? Also...let's assume that my sandbox will be shared by numerous sysprogs who have different opsys backgrounds. Some OS/390 heavies, some VM, some VSE etc.... In that scenario, wouldn't it make more sense to use LPARs to isolate the OS/390, z/OS, and VSE images, so that these sysprogs don't stomp on each other ? Given that scenario, what network setup would make more sense? Thanks, Dave Myers
