On Friday, 08/09/2013 at 11:25 EDT, David Boyes <[email protected]> wrote: > Given that access to the HMC DVD is highly restricted in most places, I'd say > that the tape option has to stay if you want to support bare metal LPARs. > Security issues aside, a lot of places the HMC might be thousands of miles > away, even from the operators -- they can't physically put the disc in the > drive. HTTP access to the HMC can still let you IPL a LPAR from tape, but it > won't let you insert the disk. > > Given that POWER machines can also boot from tape with similar HMC issues, I'd > think it's not just a Z issue.
I would like the HMC to allow upload of ISO images to a large-capacity USB drive and for the Load from Removable Media function to allow selection of said ISO image. This would be similar in thought to the Mount Virtual Media function available for zBX blades. Folks need to help your organizations move past the quaint notion that the HMC is only for Other People. It has a role for systems programmers, not just machine jockeys. And I expect that role will grow over time. There's a reason it has remote access capability. (Of course, I find lots of shops fail to create individual user IDs on the HMC for the sysprogs with appropriate assigned resource roles, causing the very thing they want to avoid!) 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/
