On Monday, 12/14/2009 at 02:44 EST, "Gary M. Dennis" <gary.den...@mantissa.com> wrote: > Watching ?A Christmas Story? makes me wonder if you can ?shoot your eye out? > through errors of omission with a VM system.
Of course. Computers aren't the brightest bulbs on the string, but they are obedient. Note that they do occassionally leave a mess on the floor, so you can't leave them unattended! There is a phrase: "Our gun, your foot. Keep your finger off the trigger." > Can anyone point me to a source for z/VM ?Best Practices? that addresses low > level system recovery (essentially disaster recovery). LOL. I am coming to hate the phrase "Best Practices". The problem is with "best." It depends on (a) what your recovery requirements are, and (b) how much money you are willing to pay. [1] You need to know: - How quickly must the virtual servers be back on the air? (z/VM is recovered and guests are up.) - How quickly must the virtual servers data be resynched with Last Known Data? (Linux guests have gone through their own recovery.) - How much in-flight data loss can you tolerate? The answers to these questions drive the technology and the cost. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott [1] Same issues come up vis a vis security. Performance. Automation. Provisioning....
