Background:

- Moving ~ 20 z/OS Oracle Databases to Oracle 10g on z/VM linux (Hello z10!)
- Powers that be want to move everything to RHEL5.
- San Disk is the Frankenstein 9990v that has Hitachi, Sun and StorageTek all
over it. We have 2105 ECKD DASD running off it with 3390B and 3390A definitions.
We see PAV bases and aliases under z/VM no prob.
- No FCP at this point as FCP from the 9990v to the z9BC requires a San volume
controller for IBM to support it. We don't have the SVC. Straight FICON ECKD is
all we got and most are MOD9s (We wll be going bigger if we stick ECKD).

I have done some reading. Some from old sources, some from new.I am a bit
overloaded now.

Am I correct that in order to get PAV working on the linux guest I only have to
vary the volumes online to guest itself and the linux DASD driver will handle
the PAV when required? I really don't have to mess around with multipath, mdadm
or EVMS (we have some SLES)?

In my testing with RHEL5 I can vary online the base and alias devices and all
appears ok. The DASD driver finds which are the alias and the bases and the UIDs
all point to the same device.

Am I on the right path here?


D. Tyler Koyl
Management Analyst
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Viterra
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