I've always just installed to mdisk because it seemed simpler to me. You could probably search the VM (ib...@listserv.uark.edu)list archives for more info on the subject if you don't want to post to it.
Larry Brown -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Johnston, Robert E Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 4:24 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: VM install and VMSYS file pool I am mostly MVS (VS/1 to z/OS) and know there is a VM list, but I am confident someone here can advise me. I supported VM for a few years in the mid 1980's before LPARs (VM/HPO 5 last I believe). I don't remember file pools and it looks... interesting. The purpose of installing VM here is to try out Linux and Solaris. There is a big push to try Solaris. We have nothing Linux lined up, but VM could end up being a godsend for our mainframe. We have lost some z/OS apps since 2000. I've been reading the install doc and am almost ready to give it a try but I am unsure about the VMSYS question on a worksheet. We won't have any real CMS users, VM products, and maybe just a couple of guest OS's. In the z/VM: Guide for Automated Installation and Service, step 2 #3, it says to determine which products you will load into the VMSYS file pool and which products you will load to minidisks only. Do I want to load to VMSYS also? If so, my choices appear to be: VM, VMHCD, OSA, ICKDSK, and TCPIP. (the rest are disabled products). Load them all or just some? All this might not amount to a hill of beans in our case, but I'd like to do it right. Thanks for any and all help! Robert Johnston UAMS, Little Rock, AR ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
