On Monday, 12/09/2013 at 02:11 EST, Steffen Maier <ma...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> (NPIV is a hard requirement for auto LUN scan, the other requirements > are best practice because otherwise you would attach everything visible > in your fabric which might cause competition for the same LUNs in > different Linux images which is dangerous because of potential data > corruption (unless one uses a cluster file system intentionally).) While it's technically a configuration *choice*, NPIV should be treated as a hard *requirement* for ANY virtual server deployment where you share a FC adapter (on any platform). Alan Altmark Senior Managing z/VM and Linux 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/
