Hello DJ,
I have been thinking along those lines. It will really depend
upon when the EMC box comes in. the Current EMC does not have any more
ESCON available. I am thinking that that we could live with one escon
on the new system and 3 escon on the MP3000.
Then the carts become the problems. They only have 2 escon.
I am working questions in my mind.
Ed Martin
Aultman Health Foundation
330-588-4723
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ext. 40441
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On
>> Behalf Of Dave Jones
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 12:24 PM
>> To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
>> Subject: Re: mp3000
>>
>> Ed, will it be possible for you to have the new hardware installed
>> alongside the existing M3K box?
>>
>> DJ
>>
>> Edward M. Martin wrote:
>> > Hello David, Alan, and others,
>> >
>> > The overall problem is getting from z/4.3 on the MP3000 to
>> > At Z/800/890/900/990 with out any user interruption.
>> >
>> > Ok I have 20 minutes at midnight.
>> >
>> > I am thinking do z/VM 4.3 to z/VM 4.4 upgrade. Now I should be
>> > able to run on whatever box they throw at me.
>> >
>> > I am using SFS right now for all the UltraQuest/Nomad2 (4gl)
>> > stuff.
>> > I am thinking easy move of that stuff.
>> >
>> > Then on to z/VM 5.x.
>> >
>> > Oh, just because, it looks like I have a DASD (EMC Symmetrix)
>> > upgrade too.
>> >
>> > Ed Martin
>> > Aultman Health Foundation
>> > 330-588-4723
>> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > ext. 40441
>> >
>> >
>> >>>-----Original Message-----
>> >>>From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >
>> > On
>> >
>> >>>Behalf Of David Boyes
>> >>>Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 12:03 PM
>> >>>To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
>> >>>Subject: Re: mp3000
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>> We are on z/VM 4.3 and was wondering if anyone has run z/VM 4.3
>> >>>>on
>> >>>>any of these boxes (unsupported of course).
>> >>>
>> >>>It certainly runs fine on the MP3000. I've successfully run 4.3 on
a
>> >>>z890, so it probably will work OK (assuming you don't get a
multibook
>> >>>990 or something that 4.3 doesn't know how to handle). You will
need
>> >>>some PTFs if you add new device types, but if this is just a
>> >
>> > processor
>> >
>> >>>box swap, you ought to be OK.
>> >>>
>> >>>Another option nobody mentioned would be to install 5.1 on the
metal,
>> >>>create a guest id and dedicate all the 4.3 disks to it, and run
the
>> >
>> > 4.3
>> >
>> >>>system as a guest of a 5.1 system, which would be a little better
>> >>>supported (at least the parts that deal with the real hardware
would
>> >
>> > be
>> >
>> >>>supported). That would also require the least change to the
>> >
>> > environment
>> >
>> >>>-- you could keep running the 4.3 system and just migrate users
down
>> >
>> > to
>> >
>> >>>5.1 as you do testing. 5.1 to 5.2 is a much smaller jump than 4.x
to
>> >>>5.x.
>> >>>
>> >>>You could migrate to SFS as part of the 4.x -> 5.x migration and
then
>> >>>the next upgrade is LOTS easier...
>> >>>
>> >>>-- db
