>>> On 4/28/2011 at 12:19 PM, Alan Ackerman<alan.acker...@bankofamerica.com> >>> wrote:
> We are planning to use FCP disk with a z/Linux under z/VM system, > running under z/VM 5.4. To reduce cost, we are planning to use the > point-to-point topology. If you don't use a SAN fabric switch, discovering and configuring LUNs on your Linux guests will be entirely manual, and even less fun than usual. This is due to the fact that a number of things the discovery tools depend upon are provided by the switch itself. I know of a couple of customers that went with point-to-point. It made their life (and that of their IBM business partner and our TSS) miserable. Mark Post
