Tempus fugit. I have (personally) seen z/VM do the same thing circa 2015. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Shane G Sent: Friday, April 27, 2018 7:21 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: z/OSMF, was How far out of date are my skills
On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 12:40:52 +0800, David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> wrote: >On 27/04/2018 1:38 AM, Tom Marchant wrote: >> On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 16:14:49 +0100, Styles, Andy (ITS zPlatform Services) >> wrote: >> >>> Can't shutdown and IPL in 315 seconds.. (well, we can't). >> No, but you can move the work to another LPAR in the Sysplex before >> the IPL, minimizing the application down time. > >That can be done on Windows/Linux systems using virtualization >technologies like VMWare and HyperV live migration. Coupled with >fail-over clustering you can build reasonably robust systems. The >monitoring infrastructure is excellent. >Our distributed sysadmin was showing my HyperV and I was very impressed. >It's not as good as >a full parallel sysplex but good enough for a lot of companies WRT SLAs. On the way home from Boston Share, I dropped in to VMWorld in Frisco. One of the sessions was a live migration of an active representative workload from mainland USA to India. In front of a live audience, with monitors running. Bloody impressive. And this was Aug/Sept 2013. Even z/VM couldn't handle things like that, let alone a 'plex. Just ask google/facebook/amazon what can be done on non-proprietary commodity hardware to keep systems up and running. Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ::DISCLAIMER:: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and intended for the named recipient(s) only. E-mail transmission is not guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or may contain viruses in transmission. The e mail and its contents (with or without referred errors) shall therefore not attach any liability on the originator or HCL or its affiliates. Views or opinions, if any, presented in this email are solely those of the author and may not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of HCL or its affiliates. Any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and / or publication of this message without the prior written consent of authorized representative of HCL is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify the sender immediately. Before opening any email and/or attachments, please check them for viruses and other defects. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
