We use DS8870 ssd drives for z/VM paging. I have used them successfully as Linux boot volumes and also use them for r/o shared WAS binary volumes all eckd. No issues here.
Phil Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 5, 2016, at 12:01 PM, Martha McConaghy <[email protected]> wrote: > > Has anyone had experience using solid state drives (SSD) with a zLinux guest > running under z/VM 6.3? We recently got a DS8870 that has quite a few SSDs. > However, I haven't done anything with them yet. I would guess that I just > configure arrays on them like normal disks, make them FB, create a LUN on them > and then connect the LUN to the Linux guest like any SAN LUN. > > Is there anything special I should be aware of before jumping in? > > Martha > > System Architect/Technical Lead > Marist College > > SHARE San Antonio - Feb 28-March 4, 2016 > > Hope to see y'all there! > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/
