On Tuesday, 06/14/2011 at 11:36 EDT, Sam Bass <sam.b...@mclaneco.com> wrote:
> Do you think IBM will think about adding a 'page delete' feature so you can > migrate page volumes to another disk subsystem so you don't have to shutdown > all of the guest and z/VM? It sure would be handy. > I was hoping to move all of the paging to the new devices so I would have less > to do on the weekend when I move the z/VM res/spool/page/guest volumes. Not unless folks begin to get louder in their requests for such a function. I can tell you than "handiness" is not a metric IBM uses to decide such things. Looking at the Single System Image environment, you would relocate the (important) guests to another LPAR, re-IPL this LPAR, and then relocate them back. So I suppose you'd have to have a compelling argument as to why SSI wouldn't be acceptable. Same problem with spool, btw, though at least you can use SPOOLCHN and SPXTAPE to fix it. BTW, I have my own closet full of various T-shirts, and I have one labeled "Had to re-IPL to reclaim DASD". :-( Alan Altmark z/VM and Linux on System z Consultant IBM System Lab Services and Training ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 mobile; 607.321.7556 alan_altm...@us.ibm.com IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
