Hello Stewart, Could you contact me off list? I want to know more details about your recent experience.
Thank you, Kind Regards, Filipe Miranda Global Lead for System z [email protected] M. 949 572 3463 W. 650 254 4170 Red Hat, Inc. On May 9, 2013, at 9:03 AM, "Stewart, Lee" <[email protected]> wrote: > We're running RHEL 5.9 and 6.3. My Linux guys tell me that RedHat support > is telling them that the only way to take a dump on System Z is VMDUMP. But > our Linuxes tend to be up in the 20-40GB range, and it takes forever (many > hours) to take a dump, tons of free dump space in the spool, and many hours > to do the DUMPLOAD and of course tons of CMS disk space to hold a dump. > > I know the IBM dump tools doc says explicitly to use kdump, but apparently > RedHat support has been adamant.... > > Has anyone else bumped into that message from RedHat? > Lee > > Lee Stewart - VM System Support -- [visasm] -- Phone: 6(750)4601 - > +1-303-389-4601 - [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/ > <image001.gif> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
