Re: any good recommendations for an HA tool on zSeries?

2013-10-05 Thread David Boyes
On Oct 4, 2013, at 3:48 PM, "Collinson.Shannon" mailto:shannon.collin...@suntrust.com>> wrote: We do have some F5 appliances, but I think that's just for network routing--if there's any kind of F5 that could help manage an HA solution (making a passive server active or something like that), we

Re: any good recommendations for an HA tool on zSeries?

2013-10-04 Thread Marcy Cortes
>If you can automate suspension of host monitors, you will be well served. >That way, when you take down part of a cluster (e.g. z/VM IPL), the central >host monitors don't start beeping. > I say "suspend" rather than "disable" because if they aren't back online by > the end of the service windo

Re: any good recommendations for an HA tool on zSeries?

2013-10-04 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 10/04/2013 at 05:12 EDT, Marcy Cortes wrote: > I do plan to write up all the steps needed in a VM environment to get > OCFS2/CLVM/Storage Based fencing with minidisks. Maybe in the form of a SHARE > presentation. > It would be SUSE specific though, since that's what I have. In a hom

Re: any good recommendations for an HA tool on zSeries?

2013-10-04 Thread Marcy Cortes
s useful. Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Collinson.Shannon Sent: Friday, October 04, 2013 12:48 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] any good recommendations for an HA tool on zSeries? We do have some F5 appliances, but

Re: any good recommendations for an HA tool on zSeries?

2013-10-04 Thread Collinson.Shannon
re IPLing their z/VM lpars. Thanks for your consideration/responses! Shannon -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Friday, October 04, 2013 12:28 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: any good recommendations f

Re: any good recommendations for an HA tool on zSeries?

2013-10-04 Thread Marcy Cortes
> and we're trusting to IBM's never-gonna-fail on the storage side. If only! :) Or you could get a leak in your data center which melts a piece of equipment :) You may get by without hyperswap and use just PPRC if you can be down for a little bit after the primary storage fails. Of course that m

Re: any good recommendations for an HA tool on zSeries?

2013-10-04 Thread Collinson.Shannon
f Of Alan Altmark Sent: Friday, October 04, 2013 1:45 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: any good recommendations for an HA tool on zSeries? On Friday, 10/04/2013 at 11:04 EDT, "Collinson.Shannon" wrote: > We're running RHEL6.2 and RHEL6.4 on our zlinux servers under z/V

Re: any good recommendations for an HA tool on zSeries?

2013-10-04 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 10/04/2013 at 11:04 EDT, "Collinson.Shannon" wrote: > We're running RHEL6.2 and RHEL6.4 on our zlinux servers under z/VM 6.2 and so > far have been handling HA by just clustering servers--yeah, any transaction in > process to a server that's gone down would be whacked in mid-air, but an

Re: any good recommendations for an HA tool on zSeries?

2013-10-04 Thread Marcy Cortes
ux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Collinson.Shannon Sent: Friday, October 04, 2013 8:03 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [LINUX-390] any good recommendations for an HA tool on zSeries? We're running RHEL6.2 and RHEL6.4 on our zlinux servers under z/VM 6.2 and

Re: any good recommendations for an HA tool on zSeries?

2013-10-04 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 10/4/2013 at 11:03 AM, "Collinson.Shannon" >>> wrote: > We're running RHEL6.2 and RHEL6.4 on our zlinux servers under z/VM 6.2 and so > far have been handling HA by just clustering servers--yeah, any transaction > in process to a server that's gone down would be whacked in mid-air, but

Re: any good recommendations for an HA tool on zSeries?

2013-10-04 Thread David Boyes
> Sine Nomine's SNA HAO for RHEL on z is basically the Red Hat's source code > recompiled for s390x arch, with the addition of the fencing mechanism to > interface with z/VM, fully supported by Sine Nomine (an ISV Red Hat > Partner). The SNA HAO offers features like: Fail-over HA, Clustered File >

Re: any good recommendations for an HA tool on zSeries?

2013-10-04 Thread Filipe Miranda
ack it up from RedHat's datasheets on the web... > > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of David > Boyes > Sent: Friday, October 04, 2013 11:06 AM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: any good recommendati

Re: any good recommendations for an HA tool on zSeries?

2013-10-04 Thread Collinson.Shannon
013 11:06 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: any good recommendations for an HA tool on zSeries? > down). We'll be investigating Tivoli Systems Automation for > Multiplatform, and the Sine Nomine HAO (High Availability Option), > plus I intend to see if the RHEL HA add-on is

Re: any good recommendations for an HA tool on zSeries?

2013-10-04 Thread David Boyes
> down). We'll be investigating Tivoli Systems Automation for Multiplatform, > and the Sine Nomine HAO (High Availability Option), plus I intend to see if > the > RHEL HA add-on is compatible with zSeries, It is not. That's why we created HAO. Red Hat does not offer their HA kit for Z or Power

any good recommendations for an HA tool on zSeries?

2013-10-04 Thread Collinson.Shannon
We're running RHEL6.2 and RHEL6.4 on our zlinux servers under z/VM 6.2 and so far have been handling HA by just clustering servers--yeah, any transaction in process to a server that's gone down would be whacked in mid-air, but anything new would route to the "cluster-buddy" that was still up. T