On Wednesday, 07/29/2009 at 11:41 EDT, Rob van der Heij <rvdh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Looking at the part of future that IBM already shared with us about > z/VM 6.1, it is not unlikely that your investments on implementing CSE > today will be wasted once the goodies in z/VM 6.1 become available to > you. You may find yourself in the middle of your project with no > further supply of the parts you need. If you're not doing CSE today, I > would suggest to see whether you can postpone that project (even when > you can't go to z/VM 6.1 you might still want something that fits the > model that IBM will ship). The things you learn while implementing CSE (any or all of it) will prove invaluable in the transition to the "single system image" of the future: - Maintaining a common directory - Maintaining a common security context - Managing cross-sytem LINKs (incl. MDC) - Dealing with cross-system spool - Messaging - Applying service - Workload management - DR management - LPAR cloning and others. So while CSE includes a set of technologies, it is first and foremost a change in how you perceive and manage a set of z/VM images in order to provide higher levels of virtual server availability and of data integrity, both with as little administrative overhead as possible. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
