I know about Levanta, but I've never heard of Deployment Manager for Linux.
Who makes it?
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If you want to save yourself some serious time and headaches, there are
always the two commercial products that do all this for you:
Levanta
Deployment Manager for Linux
Neither one is cheap, but both greatly improve your productivity and
ability
to manage many instances of Linux/390.
Mark Post
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Seader, Cameron
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We are going with a lot of Linux Guests under VM. Close to 20 per IFL and
are wondering about the experiences with the basevol/guestvol scenario. How
many People accually use this scenario? How much DASD does this really save
you? Is it worth the time and effort it takes to set this up? Could you
just
setup Links to specific disks in VM for a Guest like if you just wanted to
share the binaries for say Oracle, or the /usr directory or /home
directory?
Wouldn't this accomplish the same thing? What would be the best way to go
about this? It seems that you would definately save on DASD, but how much
is
the Question. Does SUSE support the basevol/guestvol out of the box, or are
their some packages that need installing to make this work? How stable is
it
running under this basevol/guestvol scenario? hopefully this is not too
much
to ask question wise. Thanks in advance Hope you all can help.
Cameron Seader
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From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 4:47 PM
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This might be of some help. Some people on the mailing list have
implemented the "basevol/guestvol" scheme described here
http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/sg246824.html
Also, Bill Scully has a presentation for a simplified version of this at
http://linuxvm.org/present/misc/basevol.html
There's also a chapter on cloning Linux images in this Redbook
http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/sg246299.html
Mark Post
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Griffin, John G
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 9:54 AM
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Subject: Linux under VM and Cloning
We have just installed vm 4.4 and are running Linux (SuSE 8). Our
1st linux virtual machine (directory entry) runs as follows :-
vadd description size volume
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191 standard minidisk 0050 cyls 440w02
301 linux root 3338 cyls lxpb01
302 linux boot 0029 cyls lxpb01
303 linux opt 2145 cyls lxpb01
304 linux usr 1500 cyls lxpb01
305 linux var 1500 cyls lxpb01
306 linux home 1500 cyls lxpb01
My questions is we want to have one volume that all linuxes use
their software from (both kernel and third party software, as on our linux
we have db2 and some candle products) and 1 volume that is user specific so
that when we are required to clone another linux vm we can just clone the
volume that the system software is on. As for directory entries we use
vmsecure so any automation we setup would have to take this into account.
Thanks and Regards
John Griffin (z/OS Technical Support)
Office: +44 (0)207 500 6286
Mobile: +44 (0)7764 823213
Fax: +44 (0)207 500 0226
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