Thanks for the clarification, Alan, about being able to move guests from
one CEC to another.....that removes a restriction on a layout I'm now
doing.....
And I assume IBM will be providing us with a list of the non-movable
z/VM services, then?
On 08/16/2010 10:16 AM, Alan Altmark wrote:
On Monday, 08/16/2010 at 10:58 EDT, Dave Jones<d...@vsoft-software.com>
wrote:
Note that the ability to move a running virtual machine as stated in the
Statement of Direction that Alan mentions has two caveats:
1) the guest virtual machine to be moved must be running Linux, so no
moving z/OS, CMS, VSE, etc. based servers.
The support statement is expected to be for Linux only, true, but that
could change. And, as usual, you may find things that work even if they
are not supported. The trick is for the guest to (a) not panic in the
event of a detected 'glitch', and (b) not to use any of the z/VM services
that are not relocatable.
2) The move is restricted to LPARs on the same CEC, so no moving from
one z10 box to another z10 someplace else.
Not true. The preferred cluster design is, in fact, two LPARs on one CEC
and two LPARs on another.
Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott
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Dave Jones
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