Peter, We've been working with SuSe linux for about four years now. We've tried every management system we can think of. As a result of these experiences, I can only say this: Disk space is cheap, labor hours are not.
I'm sending you something offlist that may help. "A statesman is a dead politician. Lord knows we need more statesmen!" --Berkeley Breathed Gordon Wolfe, Ph.D. Boeing Shared Services Group Enterprise Servers VM Technical Services 425-865-5940 > ---------- > From: Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco > Reply To: Linux on 390 Port > Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 1:11 PM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Maintaining SLES9 Colonies? > > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
