On Wednesday, 01/25/2006 at 07:55 CST, Thomas Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The background for this is that we run a z890 with two LPARs on the CP side. > We have real ESCON CTCs between these two LPARS for GRS between z/OS.e and > z/OS. Both of these z/OS(.e) systems are at the 1.6 level. The z/OS system > is a guest under z/VM 5.1. We have just found out that our Disaster Recovery > vendor does not have any hardware that will support z/OS.e. > > We are looking at the possibility of running two z/OS guests under z/VM in a > single LPAR. We could then use virtual CTCs between these two guests for GRS. > Does z/VM's support/emulation of CTC's allow for "GRS in a ring > configuration without sysplex"? In the real I/O configuration this requires > BCTC definitions.
z/VM simulates ESCON SCTC, BCTC, and CNC connections. HELP DEFINE CTCA for details. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
