We "rolled our own" recovery Linux system (aka "virtual live cd"). We simply created a guest with a minimal Linux install and no LVM. Then via the beauty of shared disk, if a system fails we just shut down the failed guest and link our recovery system's disk to the guest as well. We IPL from the recovery system's disk, but it is configured to see both it's normal disk and also mount up the LVM directories from the failed system. We use mdisk's in the 1xx range for the normal system and in the 2xx range for the recovery system - both are configured for the recovery system so he automatically brings them both online.
Once up the recovery system can edit individual files on the failed system's LVM structure, or even perform a network restore. The cool part is you can even leave your recovery system up during normal operation so it can be backed up itself, get updates, etc. Then take it down and "swing" it onto another system when it needs to swoop in for a rescue. __________________________________ Tom Stewart Infrastructure Analyst John Deere - z/OS Support Services em: [email protected] __________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kenneth Holter Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 12:35 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Linux live CD for z/Linux? Hi all. Does there exist any linux live CD's for z/Linux? I've found our CentOS live CD very useful on our x86 servers, and would like to have the same option available on z/Linux. Regards, Kenneth Holter ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
