OSA card??? You can attach standard SAN storage (SCSI?) to a z series and access it via an FCP card. An FCP card is basically a FICON channel with specialized microcode. I *will* be corrected if my memory has ECC checked on this. We don't use them. z/VM and z/Linux (and z/VSE) support FCP attached DASD. And I think you need another "gizmo", an SVC (SAN Volume Controller).
I am so jealous of people who work at a shop which really uses the z. We are moribund on the z. IT Management is convinced that "Windows is the one, true way!" -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Larry Bernacki > Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 8:29 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: zLinux support of non-mainframe disk storage > > Does zLinux support non-IBM disk array storage? > > The background: > We're currently running a Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) server 5.5 on > zOS, > and have found out that TSM 5.5 is the last version on zOS. IBM does > not > plan to support TSM v6 on zOS. > So we need to move our TSM server. IBM has a migration path for TSM > v5.5 > to TSM v6 onto either a system running AIX or zLinux. > Since we run zLinux, we're going with the zLinux option. > To decrease the storage cost and help with out disaster recovery, we > are > looking at moving the TSM storage pools to a non-zSeries storage > medium. > > We are looking at a disk storage array direct connected via an OSA > card. > Does anyone know if zLinux can utilize disk arrays in this manner? > > Thank you in advance, > Larry Bernacki > Laboratory Technical Services Branch, ANG-E13 > FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center > Atlantic City International Airport, NJ 08405 > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/
