On Monday, 05/27/2013 at 04:43 EDT, Bruce Arro <[email protected]> wrote: > Have a Z9 with 1 CP and 5 IFL's. Have 4 X Z/VM 5.4 LPARS with various versions > of SUSE Linux running as guests and a Z/OS Prod and Test Lpar. > > Are installing a Z114 in a few weeks time and would like to upgrade to Z/VM 6.2 > also > > Questions. > > 1) Is it easier to move the Z/VM 5.4 Lpars over with the Suse Guest's and then > upgrade to Z/VM 6.2? Or should I install Z/VM 6.2 and then move the guests > (Will keep all of the device address's the same on the new machine.)
The tried-and-true approach to migration is to change as few things as possible. 1. Put z/VM 5.4, with enabling PTFs, on your z114 2. Apply any z114-related patches to Linux 3. Move them to the z114. 4. Validate 5. Upgrade z114 to z/VM 6.2 6. Validate > 2) According to IBM Z/OS 1.7 will not run natively in an LPAR on the Z114. We > need to run it under Z/VM as a guest. Has anyone run into this problem? - > Though I would create a separate Lpar with Z/VM and 2 X Z/OS guests (Prod an > Test) That depends on why it won't run. z/VM does not protect a guest from the new processor architecture, but it *will* limit the guest to a single channel subsystem. Of course, even if it ran it wouldn't be supported. > 3) Does Z/VM 5.4 run on a Z114? With service, yes. See http://www.vm.ibm.com/zvm540/ for links to required service for zEC12, z196/z114, and for Crypto Express3 and FICON Express. Alan Altmark Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant IBM System Lab Services and Training ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 mobile; 607.321.7556 [email protected] IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
