>> We may be getting a z114 to test the feasibility of z/VM/Linux on Z for our
>> shop.
>> I'm not a mainframer but I'd like to know what storage devices can be
>> provisioned for the z114 and what the preferred method is to accomplish
>> this.
>The usual suspects all work if you have FICON storage available. If you're
>looking to go totally low cost, use FCP >storage exclusively.
>The only catch right now for a FCP-only system is that there is no support for
>SCSI tape for the base VM system, which >means that you can't back up
>spool/NSS files using SPXTAPE. Everything else you can work around using
>disk-based >methods.
The other catch is that if you want to use Single System Image (when it becomes
available), you will need a 3390 for the shared cross-system serialization
disk. See presentation 9468 from the most recent SHARE for details.
Dennis O'Brien
"In case signals can neither be seen nor perfectly understood, no captain can
do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy." -- Vice
Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson's direction to his commanders prior to the Battle
of Trafalgar
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