A lot of it also depends on local practices. 1. Backups....scheduled..and monitored. 2. Disaster recovery. 3. Someone, other than yourself, trained, on fixing common problems. 4. Usually, the working size is bigger as you have more users. Change the virtual size and monitor the vdisk swap disks. 5. SET SHARE a little higher, but only if you really need to. 6. Perhaps QUICKDSP OFF. Only if q drops have become a problem. 7. Some method for Operations (or others) to make sure the machine is operating properly. 8. Automated startup and shutdown. 9. Be comfortable with restores. 10. Be comfortable with applying maintenance, and backing it out. 11. Documentation (what? did I say that...naaaa) 12. Make a decision if it should be in its own LPAR, without VM. I doubt most of us have that case. 13. Should it be part of a VSWITCH, or have dedicated OSA addresses, perhaps with the port (ethernet) dedicated if it needs the bandwidth. 14. Some sort of IP fail over. 15. Service contracts on your hardware/software. 16. A good performance monitor. (I don't have one, "money", but it makes things a lot easier and faster to respond and debug.)
Does all of this really, really get done up front? Noop. Eventually, it will, when enough people scream! Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting >>> Dave Jones <d...@vsoft-software.com> 6/1/2009 6:37 PM >>> Hi, Sunny. Can you explain what you mean by 'more special'? Give it more access to real resources? Insure that it gets dispatched before the test guests? Have a good one. sunny...@wcb.ab.ca wrote: > We put the test, develop and production zlinux environment in the same > z/VM partition. > So what we must do to make the production zLinux more 'special' than > others? > I understand it is the shared environment. > > > > Sunny Hu > sunny...@wcb.ab.ca > > This message is intended only for the addressee. It may contain privileged > or confidential information. Any unauthorized disclosure is strictly > prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify us > immediately so that we may correct our internal records. Please then delete > the original email. Thank you. (Sent by Webgate2) > -- Dave Jones V/Soft www.vsoft-software.com Houston, TX 281.578.7544
