On Tuesday, 07/08/2008 at 12:47 EDT, Brian France <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > THANX! I know but you do with what you have. Backups go thru a > hipersocket from MFL/z/VM to z/OS.
You do with what you have as long as you have a Get Out Of Jail Free card in your pocket. That is, a management-approved exemption from any security requirement that you cannot fulfill w/o an ESM. > Yes, Sorry should have been more specific. It's the WWPN issue. I > want to be able to ipl our prod vm and mfl on another frame and have > it pick up the dasd. I was wondering what would happen if I just > encoded the FCP access on a similar chpd/dev or maybe the same chpd > but different devices since we mirror the frames. Comments? Ideas? The chpid isn't important, per se, except that it dictates the WWPN. (And with NPIV, each *subchannel* on the chpid gets its own WWPN.) You need to know, in advance, the WWPN that the hosts will use and authorize them in the SAN fabric. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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