Dear Ray, I host the SMT on a z/LINUX machine which is called installation directory. In order to get enough disk space for the repositories, the disk is put on a FBA device (around 150 GB) and setup as LVM in order to make it easily expandable.
I host on that server s390x and also x86_64 repositories for the base Product SLES11, the SP1 and SP2, SDK SP1, SP2, and one additional private YUM repository. Meanwhile we got about 80 rpms of various programs especially compiled for z/Series that are not available on the common distributions. Additionally I use the SMT server also as FTP Server for z/VM installation hosting the installation media. The whole thing is quite versatile since I can serve also our Intel servers from that installation point as well. One goal of introduction of zSeries was consolidation of all services "flying around on heterogeneous infrastructure" into one box. Especially in the LINUX area we are on good track. Next we will consolidate our AIX machines on zSeries. Part of the workload will go to z/OS (DB2 and WebSphere) parts to zLINUX (Tomcat, mysql etc.) Up to now I didn't encounter any security issues. The SMT is protecting itself very well. HTH Kind regards, Florian On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Mrohs, Ray (JMD) <ray.mr...@usdoj.gov>wrote: > Hi, > This question is for those who are running SMT to service your SLES11 > virtual Linux servers. Do you maintain the repositories on x86 servers, > z/Linux servers, or other? Are there any security, capacity, or usability > issues that determined how your SMT is deployed? Thanks. > > Ray Mrohs > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
