Please forgive any misused terminology, but wouldn't it be possible to have something conceptually similar to the Intel PXE "netboot". This might be a command run from CMS, or maybe even be IPLable in its own right. I don't know all the possible communications possibilities. Perhaps VMCF instead of IP? And have a SVM which is the "boot server". I don't know if this would be any better than something like an IPLable Linux kernel in an NSS. I'm able totally "free associating" here. And I'm very ignorant of the current facilites in z/VM. I'm a lurker here and on the VM forum just to have an idea what is going on in the "free world".
-- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of > David Boyes > Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 3:09 PM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: zLinux support of non-mainframe disk storage > > > > A little bit tricky to set up, but works fine. > > > > Why would that be necessary, when mkinitrd can build in iSCSI support > > natively? Come to think of it, this may be a case when having the > kernel in > > an NSS makes perfect sense. > > I agree. It's just a little tricky to set up at the moment, as you have > to do it by hand and the options to enable iSCSI support aren't > immediately obvious. > Also, DCSSBKUP and DCSSRSAV don't do so hot with IPLable NSSes -- > wouldn't it be nice if SPXTAPE had that CMS Pipe option about now? > I guess shipping an EXEC to create the DCSS/NSS wouldn't be so bad, > though. Or a SES package to manage creating the DCSS (probably the > right way to do it) in VMFPLCD format. I wonder if somebody wrote such > an animal, would Dame Tami be willing to help in packaging it to be > SES-friendly? > > > Even without that, having the kernel and initrd > > written to DASD or SCSI is enough to then have the root file system > (and all > > others as desired) on an iSCSI disk. > > Sounds like an excellent option for a starter system. Would remove a > lot of the need for messing around with LVM (or at leaset constrain the > LVM stuff to a "server" machine like the SFS servers). Would probably > make migrating Linux systems around in clusters a lot easier too. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/
