Problems with upgrade to z/vm

2018-10-16 Thread Keith Gooding
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Re: Problems with SCSI-over-FCP after machine upgrade

2015-06-10 Thread Keith Gooding
management interface calls them hosts.  If youdidn't do an MES upgrade, then the WWPNs of your channels changed. Regards, Ray Higgs System z FCP Firmware Development Bld. 706, B42 2455 South Road Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (845) 435-8666,  T/L 295-8666 rayhi...@us.ibm.com From:       Keith Gooding

Problems with SCSI-over-FCP after machine upgrade

2015-06-04 Thread Keith Gooding
This may not be the proper forum but maybe someone can help. We have a small number of linux systems (32) under z/VM 6.3 which use SCSI connections to LUNs on a SAN Volume Controller via a couple of IBM SAN24B switches (the equivalent of Brocade 300). There are also some systems which use

Creating a linux 'live DVD' for system z

2015-04-30 Thread Keith Gooding
was reminded of this question when I recently restored a zPDT system, including z/VM and z/OS ADCDs, from a 1TB SSD the size of an iphone and compared this with the prospect of a new storage rack + FICON-attached tape controller and tape drive to do the same on a 'real' mainframe') Keith Gooding

KVM in Linux for system z capabilities

2015-02-16 Thread Keith Gooding
Can anyone help resolve this difference of opinion with colleagues ? I have always assumed from what I have read that the QEMU and KVM, offered as a 'technology preview' in for instance SUSE 11 SP3 or SUSE 12 will only run zLinux guests and its purpose is to provide an alternative to z/VM

Re: KVM in Linux for system z capabilities

2015-02-16 Thread Keith Gooding
, 16 February 2015, 18:04, Mark Post mp...@suse.com wrote: On 2/16/2015 at 12:40 PM, Keith Gooding kw...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Can anyone help resolve this difference of opinion with colleagues ?   I have always assumed from what I have read that the QEMU and KVM, offered as a 'technology

Re: Where to put Z/VM tools and utilities

2015-01-13 Thread Keith Gooding
Thanks everyone. I will set up a user to own the tools as suggested and use VMLINK. I am the only z/VM user except for a couple of people in the company who used VM many years ago and have an id for nostalgic reasons (and who could be useful if I am not around) so I will just update the PROFILE

Re: Adding a zfcp LUN to root file system logical volume

2014-05-22 Thread Keith Gooding
, but we need to have various levels of both RH and SUSE to test our software).   Keith On Wednesday, 21 May 2014, 19:13, Steffen Maier ma...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: Hi Keith, On 05/21/2014 02:05 PM, Keith Gooding wrote: Thank you to everyone who responded. No, we did not run mkinitrd

Re: Adding a zfcp LUN to root file system logical volume

2014-05-21 Thread Keith Gooding
the rd.zfcp format from RH 7. Should it be 'rh_zfcp as in RH 6 or is it not available at all ?   Keith On Wednesday, 21 May 2014, 11:21, Steffen Maier ma...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: Hi Keith, On 05/20/2014 02:36 PM, Keith Gooding wrote: We installed a RH 5.2 system where the root file system

Adding a zfcp LUN to root file system logical volume

2014-05-20 Thread Keith Gooding
Hi all,   We installed a RH 5.2 system where the root file system is on a logical volume comprising a single physical volume which is on zFCP LUN. Later we added another zFCP LUN, updated zfcp.conf and added the physical volume to the LV. This appeared to be OK until we had a scheduled reboot

PAV and FBA dasd emulated on SCSI

2014-03-20 Thread Keith Gooding
I understand that without PAV an ECKD volume cannot have have multiple I/O operations in progress and therefore the operating system (or is it the channel ?) may have to queue I/Os to a volume. I know that this applies to z/OS and I assume that it also applies to z/VM and linux, and may be a

PAV and FBA DASD emulated on SCSI

2014-03-20 Thread Keith Gooding
I understand that without PAV an ECKD volume cannot have have multiple I/O operations in progress and therefore the operating system (or is it the channel ?) may have to queue I/Os to a volume. I know that this applies to z/OS and I assume that it also applies to z/VM and linux, and may be a

Re: PAV and FBA dasd emulated on SCSI

2014-03-20 Thread Keith Gooding
for test systems. Keith Gooding On Thu, 20/3/14, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] PAV and FBA dasd emulated on SCSI To: Keith Gooding kw...@yahoo.co.uk Date: Thursday, 20 March, 2014, 20:54 On Thursday, 03/20/2014

Performance effect of multiple virtual processors

2013-02-15 Thread Keith Gooding
  something a long time ago that said it does indeed wait for all of the required CPUs to become available but I cannot find any information about it now.   TIA Keith Gooding  -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Cloning SUSE 11 SP2 SAN Volume Controller LUN

2013-01-03 Thread Keith Gooding
me to fall back to /dev/mapper/360050768018f030ee04b_part2? (Y/n) y Waiting for device /dev/mapper/360050768018f030ee04b_part2 to appear: ..not found -- ex iting to /bin/sh    regards, Keith Gooding In /dev/mapper we have

Re: Cloning SUSE 11 SP2 SAN Volume Controller LUN

2013-01-03 Thread Keith Gooding
. Is this something that we have to create if we want any non-standard definitions ?  .   Keith Gooding From: Mark Post mp...@suse.com To: Keith Gooding kw...@yahoo.co.uk Sent: Thursday, 3 January 2013, 19:07 Subject: Re: Cloning SUSE 11 SP2 SAN Volume Controller LUN

Installing Redhat 5.3 on zVM emulated 9336 FBA - HCPVMI232E IPL UNIT ERROR

2010-06-11 Thread Keith Gooding
 (IBM Hi All, I have been following the zVM 5.4 Getting Started with Linux on System z guide to install RH 5.3, but using SCSI-attached disks (IBM SVC) via 9336-emulation for both the target linux system  minidisks and the CMS mini-disk which contains the redhat.conf file. After booting from

Re: Using non-IBM SCSI disks with zLinux and zVM

2009-12-04 Thread Keith Gooding
on 12/02/2009 08:57:45 AM: Keith Gooding kw...@yahoo.co.uk Sent by: Linux on 390 Port LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU 12/02/2009 08:57 AM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU To LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Using non-IBM SCSI disks with zLinux and zVM Hi

Re: Using non-IBM SCSI disks with zLinux and zVM

2009-12-03 Thread Keith Gooding
some experience . We attach over FCP to zlinux EMC matrix (clarion and dmx) and it is supported. Jakub Szefler Administrator Mainframe -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Keith Gooding Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 2:58 PM

Using non-IBM SCSI disks with zLinux and zVM

2009-12-02 Thread Keith Gooding
Hi ... Does anyone have any experience of using FCP-attached non-IBM disks with zseries linux and/or VM ?. The IBM documentation I can find says that certain IBM and Hitachi disks are supported. Other manufacturers have disks systems specifically designed for zseries, which tend to be