Re: More words on "The Virtualization Cookbook" Redbook residency

2013-06-14 Thread Leland Lucius
On 6/13/2013 2:40 PM, Rick Troth wrote: Or maybe a compiled smiucv should also be on the Downloads page? ... I'll talk to Leland about shipping a prebuilt one, though -- no need to force a toolchain install if not needed. CORRECT. And for "external facing" or "cloud" guests, it's important

Re: More words on "The Virtualization Cookbook" Redbook residency

2013-06-13 Thread Rick Troth
>> Or maybe a compiled smiucv should also be on the Downloads page? ... > I'll talk to Leland about shipping a prebuilt one, though > -- no need to force a toolchain install if not needed. CORRECT. And for "external facing" or "cloud" guests, it's important to NOT have the toolchain available.

Re: More words on "The Virtualization Cookbook" Redbook residency

2013-06-13 Thread David Boyes
> > 1) a section on setting up the CMS SSL server to provide secure > management traffic transport. > > 2) a section on enabling SMAPI and the use of smaclient to manipulate > the images. > > We had talked about the SSL server early. Apparently this is a complicated > install. Given the quantity

Re: More words on "The Virtualization Cookbook" Redbook residency

2013-06-13 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Chris, > ./smaclient smiucv will compile it and place it in the current directory. Yes, that worked! Thanks. For some reason, I thought that process was done auto-magically. "Mike MacIsaac" -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signof

Re: More words on "The Virtualization Cookbook" Redbook residency

2013-06-13 Thread Will, Chris
Of Michael MacIsaac Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 12:42 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: More words on "The Virtualization Cookbook" Redbook residency David, > 1) a section on setting up the CMS SSL server to provide secure management traffic transport. > 2) a section o

Re: More words on "The Virtualization Cookbook" Redbook residency

2013-06-13 Thread Michael MacIsaac
David, > 1) a section on setting up the CMS SSL server to provide secure management traffic transport. > 2) a section on enabling SMAPI and the use of smaclient to manipulate the images. We had talked about the SSL server early. Apparently this is a complicated install. Given the quantity of ma

Re: More words on "The Virtualization Cookbook" Redbook residency

2013-06-12 Thread Kurt Acker
help generate interest by a larger audience. Kurt Acker IBM Smarter Planet, Smarter Data Centers Virtualization and Enterprise System Management Technologies From: David Boyes To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu, Date: 06/12/2013 10:39 AM Subject: Re: More words on "The Virtualization Cookbook" Re

Re: More words on "The Virtualization Cookbook" Redbook residency

2013-06-12 Thread David Boyes
> Is there already zVM/zLinux documentation contrasting benefits/costs of > Hipersockets vs shared OSA offload? I believe OSA offload can also be an > approach that is a differentiator with Z. So might as well add that too? > Unless Hipersockets is always superior, though I'm not sure that's the

Re: More words on "The Virtualization Cookbook" Redbook residency

2013-06-12 Thread David Boyes
> Any more suggestions or comments of what else you'd like to see in this > book? If it's not already there: 1) a section on setting up the CMS SSL server to provide secure management traffic transport. 2) a section on enabling SMAPI and the use of smaclient to manipulate the images.

Re: More words on "The Virtualization Cookbook" Redbook residency

2013-06-12 Thread Veencamp, Jonathon D.
Is there already zVM/zLinux documentation contrasting benefits/costs of Hipersockets vs shared OSA offload? I believe OSA offload can also be an approach that is a differentiator with Z. So might as well add that too? Unless Hipersockets is always superior, though I'm not sure that's the case

Re: More words on "The Virtualization Cookbook" Redbook residency

2013-06-12 Thread Jonathan Quay
Since that is a fairly key differentiator for the Z environment, and something that management can probably understand (hey, look, cross memory "networking"), you should really try to have a page or two on setting it up. On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Michael MacIsaac wrote: > John, > > > you

Re: More words on "The Virtualization Cookbook" Redbook residency

2013-06-12 Thread Will, Chris
@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: More words on "The Virtualization Cookbook" Redbook residency Hello lists, Thought I'd blog a bit more on "The Virtualization Cookbook" residency. The first week we got a z/VM ESP system installed in a 2-node SSI cluster. We defined an IDENTITY (aka an

Re: More words on "The Virtualization Cookbook" Redbook residency

2013-06-12 Thread Michael MacIsaac
John, > you might include a (sub)chapter on setting up a Hipersockets network. Thanks for the input - we will add it to the (wish) list... "Mike MacIsaac" -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: More words on "The Virtualization Cookbook" Redbook residency

2013-06-12 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Michael MacIsaac > > Hello lists, > > Thought I'd blog a bit more on "The Virtualization Cookbook" residency. > [ snip ] > > Today starts work day 8 of 20 and we still have many items "on our plate" > that we'll try to address (

More words on "The Virtualization Cookbook" Redbook residency

2013-06-12 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Hello lists, Thought I'd blog a bit more on "The Virtualization Cookbook" residency. The first week we got a z/VM ESP system installed in a 2-node SSI cluster. We defined an IDENTITY (aka an MCVM) named LNXADMIN with the system on one member being focused on RHEL and the other on SLES (addressing