Exactly what we did - but with SuSE instead of Redhat. Start in an LPAR, then get an evaluation copy of z/VM and then you'll have all of the data you need to present the justification to management for the full blown purchase.
Jerry Whitteridge Lead Systems Programmer Safeway Inc. 925 951 4184 If you feel in control you just aren't going fast enough. -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 5:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: z/Linux and z/OS Sure, that's how we got started. Brought up Redhat on a spare lpar sharing part of a regular CP. Then got a trial version of z/VM from IBM and management was more or less sold on the z/VM-zLinux configuration. Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474 -----Original Message----- From: Spring, David [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 8:28 AM To: [email protected] Subject: z/Linux and z/OS Good morning all, Hope this is the right place to ask this question. Please pardon the intrusion if I should be posting this someplace else. Our management is considering the acquisition of a new z114 "sandbox" system primarily for testing new hardware (DASD and tape). They would also like to conduct a z/Linux POC using the same machine. I know that z/Linux can run in native mode on a System z processor but I wasn't sure about it running side by side with z/OS. Can this be done using PR/SM and building separate LPARs on the z114 for running z/Linux and z/OS together on the same machine? I know that the most sensible solution would probably be to get a z/VM hypervisor and run z/OS and z/Linux as guest operating systems under it. However, there's a lot of resistance here to running yet another operating system such as z/VM. Any comments, advice, etc.? David Spring Social Security Administration DCS/OTSO/DMSS/MOSB MVS Operating System Team Desk: (410) 965-9309 BB: (443) 379-7839 Email: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ "Email Firewall" made the following annotations. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Warning: All e-mail sent to this address will be received by the corporate e-mail system, and is subject to archival and review by someone other than the recipient. This e-mail may contain proprietary information and is intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s). If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient(s), you are notified that you have received this message in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately. ============================================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
