Re: Multipathing for ECKD devices

2009-10-08 Thread Brad Hinson
Sterling James wrote: Has the ECKD dasd device driver in SLES11/Redhat 5.4 changed to provide muiltipathing vs multipath? lsdasd Bus-ID Status Name Device Type BlkSz Size Blocks == 0.0.0206 alias

Re: Has anyone looked into a "console server"

2009-10-08 Thread Scott Rohling
Hmmm.. maybe more like announcing your wife just stopped beating you? ;-) Scott On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Mark Post wrote: > >>> On 10/8/2009 at 6:19 PM, Shawn Wells wrote: > -snip- > > We've had this since RHEL 5.4 released earlier. for once, it's > > Novell that needs to catch up

Re: Has anyone looked into a "console server"

2009-10-08 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 10/8/2009 at 6:19 PM, Shawn Wells wrote: -snip- > We've had this since RHEL 5.4 released earlier. for once, it's > Novell that needs to catch up ;) Hopefully you realize that statement is very similar to announcing you've just stopped beating your wife. :) Mark Post

Re: How to share files/disk between 2 LPARS

2009-10-08 Thread Lee Stewart
Let me add... An HA cluster with some local filesystems and some shared. The shared filesystems are OCFS2 defined as MDISKs mode MW on both LPARs.. The config worked with two Linuxes in one LPAR, one with the MDISKS mode MW, the other with LINKs to those MDISKs also as MW. Picking up the 2nd m

Re: Has anyone looked into a "console server"

2009-10-08 Thread Shawn Wells
Michael MacIsaac wrote: Hi list, Thanks for all the replies ... I had forgotten about the terminal server paper. That looks like a good approach as it is Linux-centric (not that the z/VM-centric solutions aren't good too). It's also good to hear that the next SLES release will be picking that

Re: How to share files/disk between 2 LPARS

2009-10-08 Thread Agblad Tore
Thank's, that was smart. I will be using that :) Cordialement / Vriendelijke Groeten / Best Regards / Med Vänliga Hälsningar Tore Agblad Volvo Information Technology Infrastructure Mainframe Design & Development SE-405 08, Gothenburg Sweden E-mail: tore.agb...@volvo.com http://

Re: How to share files/disk between 2 LPARS

2009-10-08 Thread Ronald van der Laan
Tore, It may be easier to use a similar, but slightly different approach. Just define a placeholder like: USER CODEDISK NOLOG LINK CODEDISK 0401 0400 R MDISK 0401 . MDISK 0402 . MDISK 0403 . You then start with the code installed on the 401 disk and let users link the 400 dis

Re: How to share files/disk between 2 LPARS

2009-10-08 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Agblad Tore wrote: > All servers links to a shared disk in read mode only.  LINK 400 RR Given your configuration and procedures, it should be enough to use link mode "R" (and thus have CP refuse the link when someone is writing to the disk because you know the co

Re: How to share files/disk between 2 LPARS

2009-10-08 Thread Agblad Tore
We do a less sofisticated but stable method: (This is for readonly data) The disk that should be shared is first prepared from a Linux, then unmounted and snapshotted to another VMuser as 400, that never boots, it just owns the disks. All servers links to a shared disk in read mode only. LINK 4