Hi Marcy, Thanks for the info. We go the test fix for 64297 (which they say includes 64269) last night and we hope to get a test window this weekend...if for nothing else but to get a dump. But, if we can recreate it, we're gonna try the fix after taking the dump.
Thanks again, Leland On 10/15/07 2:26 PM, "Marcy Cortes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Make sure you get a snapdump next time. > There's quite a few HIPERs out there beyond 0701, you may want to go > pull them all. > Sounds kinda similar to something we've experienced - resolved by > VM64269 and VM64297. > > > > Marcy Cortes > > "This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If > you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the > addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on > this message or any information herein. If you have received this > message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail > and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation." > > > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Leland > Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 11:45 AM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: [IBMVM] Upgrade to z/VM 5.3 hangs > > I am wondering if anyone has seen this when upgrading from VM 5.2 to VM > 5.3. We opened an ETR for our issue with IBM this morning. Yesterday > we attempted to upgrade to z/VM 5.3 0701 and ran into a problem that > caused us to back out to z/VM 5.2. After bringing up 10 service > machines and roughly 50 Linux guests, we started 2 more Linux guests. > This caused MAINT's and another tn3270 session to hang. We thought > perhaps TCPIP had died, so we went to our Visara console and that was > hung to. We were able to ssh into some of the Linux guests and bring > down stuff like Websphere and Oracle, but we could not get into all of > the guests. When we tried a vmcp command in one guest, it immediatey > locked that guest. We have all of our guests connected to VSWITCHes > directly, so no ROUTED stuff was involved. The two guests are similar > to others that started fine. One was a Websphere and the other is an > Oracle guest. The Oracle is different in that its database is on SCSI > disk with direct attached FCP channels, it is the only guest we have > using FCP and SCSI. We weren't doing any paging and our IFL's were > running at around 20%. We didn't get a dump, but are scheduling a time > soon to do so. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thank you. > > Mark Ristvedt > BCBSMN > > (via me ;-)) >
