We do this quite often. We have 4 VM's and guests can be moved freely to any of these LPARs. It depends if you need other DASD as well.
If you can share DASD then make sure the DASD is available on both VM's. Shutdown (logoff) the guest in one LPAR and start it in the other LPAR. The directory entries in both VM's must be the same, except for the password (the guests have only one VM where they can logon, all others have NOLOG). That is how we move guests between LPARs. If you want to move to other DASD as well you need to copy the DASD using DDR. The easiest would be to create an identical guest entry with the new extents, such as guest1 and guest2, where guest1 is the guest to be moved and guest2 is the guest on different DASD extents. Next 'clone' the guest to the new DASD extents. Then start the new guest in your other LPAR. The cloning process is described in several redbooks, but it is basically a DDR of all minidisks. Regards, Berry. Op 26-02-11 00:48, Michael Forte schreef: > Hi members of the outstanding z/VM community! > > I need advice or a pointer to documentation (if available? > presentations, official publications, Redbooks...) on how to move a > Linux guest from one z/VM LPAR to another. Now, I know this could > probably be pieced together from an assortment of z/VM product > documentation or multiple Redbooks, but I am hoping someone in this > community has done this before. Even a set of high-level "steps" would > prove invaluable. > > Does anyone have any insight? > > z/VM 6.1, SLES 11, all FICON. > > Thanks in advance and I hope everyone has a great weekend. > > *Michael J. Forte * > z/OS Storage ID (and on assignment with STG Lab Services and Training) > Software Engineer, System z Information Solutions 58HA > IBM Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
