Ray,
> But I am unable to use zVM2, zVM3 and zVM4 to do any cloning at all.
What error are you getting?
The golden image is a USER, not an IDENTITY, right? If the minidisk
volume(s) of the golden image are available to all member systems, then you
should be OK.
-Mike
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Chu, Raymond <[email protected]> wrote:
> Mike,
>
> I actually have the following set up shown below:
>
> IDENTITY LNXADMIN PASSWORD 256M 1G BG
> INCLUDE LNXDFLT
> BUILD ON zVM1 USING SUBCONFIG LNXADM-1
> BUILD ON zVM2 USING SUBCONFIG LNXADM-2
> BUILD ON zVM3 USING SUBCONFIG LNXADM-3
> BUILD ON zVM4 USING SUBCONFIG LNXADM-4
> OPTION LNKNOPAS
> SUBCONFIG LNXADM-1
> MDISK 0100 3390 0001 10016 VM1091 MR PASSWORD PASSWORD PASSWORD
> MDISK 0101 3390 0521 9496 VM1090 MR PASSWORD PASSWORD PASSWORD
> SUBCONFIG LNXADM-2
> MDISK 0100 3390 0001 10016 VM1525 MR PASSWORD PASSWORD PASSWORD
> MDISK 0101 3390 0521 9496 VM1526 MR PASSWORD PASSWORD PASSWORD
> SUBCONFIG LNXADM-3
> MDISK 0100 3390 0001 10016 VM149E MR PASSWORD PASSWORD PASSWORD
> MDISK 0101 3390 0521 9496 VM149F MR PASSWORD PASSWORD PASSWORD
> SUBCONFIG LNXADM-4
> MDISK 0100 3390 0001 10016 VM1527 MR PASSWORD PASSWORD PASSWORD
> MDISK 0101 3390 0521 9496 VM1528 MR PASSWORD PASSWORD PASSWORD
>
> It works great to use the zVM1 to do cloning and I can create zLinux z
> Images from the zVM1 LPAR. But I am unable to use zVM2, zVM3 and zVM4 to
> do any cloning at all.
>
> I also cloned MDISK 100 (VM1091) of zVM1 to VM1525, VM149E and VM1527 and
> MDISK 101 (VM1090) of zVM1 to VM1526, VM149F and VM1528. Understood that
> the MISK 101 started at 521 because 1 to 520 were used by LNXMAINT for two
> virtual mode A and D for SWAPGEN, RH65GOLD and LNXADMIN parameters and
> configurations and so on.
>
> I have been communicating with IBM Link to figure how to create Linux on
> System z from zVM2, zVM3 and zVM4 and I am kind of out of resource. Since
> you were the Master of the RedBook and you still are. Could you please
> show and tell me what went wrong?
>
> The reason that I am looking for this particular configuration is because
> I want to configure zLinux images from a particular LPARs to pick up
> particular range of predefined mac prefix.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ray
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Michael MacIsaac
> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2014 2:43 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Question on The Virtualization Cookbook for IVM z/VM V6.3
>
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>
> Ray,
>
> Yes. The idea here is to have one administrative Linux per LPAR (SSI
> member). With an IDENTITY, all four can/should be running at the same time.
>
> We had 100 and 101 minidisks in an earlier Cookbook so as to have two
> 3390-3s. In the current cookbook we split a 3390-9 in half which may not
> make the most sense, but it still works. If you have the disk space, you
> might want to make both 100 and 101 full mod-9s to leave a little more room
> for growth.
>
> -Mike
>
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Chu, Raymond <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have already configured a z/VM SSI cluster with 4 LPARs. When I
> > revisited the Cookbook at Section 2.8.5 z/VM DASD used in this book.
> > Table 2-8, I can see DASD are reserved for LNXMAINT(191-192), LNXADMIN
> > (101), LNXADMIN (100) for member 1 LNXADMIN (100) and LNXADMIN (100)
> > for member 2
> >
> > Our system has 4 z/VM LPARs. Should I also reserve DASDs
> > LNXADMIN(100) and (101) for member 3 and 4 ? They should have the same
> > setting as the member? Please advise.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ray
> >
> >
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