I'm sorry I accidently replied to the list. This was not intentional (google autocompletion) - and I suddenly got the usual out of office notices and understood my mistake. Please disregard my last message it was a more commercial oriented offering and did not fit in a technical mailing list. My sincere apologies Lior.
On 4/13/05, Lior Kesos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Peter, > I'm sending this personally so I don't "spam" the list with a > commercial offering. > I work for aduva a linux company which has a multitude of clients > using Onstage our product to address that same goal. > We support SLES8 and SLES9 both 31bt and 64 versions on Z (on zvm). > I understand if you're trying to solve this with open-source > methodologies and obiously it is possible with some work to do so - I > just wanted to raise you're awareness that there are products that > address that issue exactly and much more. > We've had great reviews by other mainframe linux customers and > although we're also in the distributed linux and solaris segments we > have the most friction in our work in the mainframe linux sites. > > I'm happy about the basevol link which I tried access but seemed to be dead. > Opensource is a wonderfull source of inspiration for software development. > > best regards > Lior. > > On 4/13/05, Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am revisiting this again. I implemented a basevol/guestvol system > > similar to what is > > described at http://linuxvm.org/present/misc/basevol.html . This has > > worked for our SLES 8. We now have SLES9 guest up and running and I am > > wondering if we should continue under this methodology. Some say yes, some > > say no. > > > > Out intent is to reduce man hours to apply individual maintenance to each > > Linux Guest or product. Since SLES9 is different, the basevol/guestvol R/O > > scripts do not quite fit. I do not know if this methodology even applies > > to SLES 9. > > > > There is also a local YOU server I believe with SLES 9 that Linux guests > > can be configured to use for updates. But this means that each Linux guest > > must have r/w Linux root file system. > > > > Is there a recommended or official recommendation for maintaining z/VM > > Linux colonies? I appreciate any recommendations, philosophies, and/or > > experiences. As always, thanks. > > > > Peter > > > > This Email message and any attachment may contain information that is > > proprietary, legally privileged, confidential and/or subject to copyright > > belonging to Pepco Holdings, Inc. or its affiliates ("PHI"). This Email is > > intended solely for the use of the person(s) to which it is addressed. If > > you are not an intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for > > delivery of this Email to the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified > > that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this Email is strictly > > prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately > > notify the sender and permanently delete this Email and any copies. PHI > > policies expressly prohibit employees from making defamatory or offensive > > statements and infringing any copyright or any other legal right by Email > > communication. PHI will not accept any liability in respect of such > > communications. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > > > -- > Peace Love and Penguins - > Lior Kesos > -- Peace Love and Penguins - Lior Kesos ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390