David Simpson presented this material at last years Oracle SIG conference:
http://www.oraclezsig.org/2015presentations/THU_1045_2015_Simpson_IO_V3.pdf - That event will be held on April 26 and 27th this year: http://www.oraclezsig.org/ Bill Bitner has also presented on its very positive effects to paging: http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/bitner/presentations/pagflash.pdf I have not heard of any "gotchas" with regards to set up or usage. Hopefully some customers will chime in as I know more then a few have been using it, Kurt Acker Cell: 607-348-8197 IBM Smarter Planet, Smarter Data Centers Virtualization and Enterprise System Management Technologies From: Martha McConaghy <u...@vm.marist.edu> To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 02/05/2016 12:10 PM Subject: Using solid state drives with Linux guests Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU> Has anyone had experience using solid state drives (SSD) with a zLinux guest running under z/VM 6.3? We recently got a DS8870 that has quite a few SSDs. However, I haven't done anything with them yet. I would guess that I just configure arrays on them like normal disks, make them FB, create a LUN on them and then connect the LUN to the Linux guest like any SAN LUN. Is there anything special I should be aware of before jumping in? Martha System Architect/Technical Lead Marist College SHARE San Antonio - Feb 28-March 4, 2016 Hope to see y'all there! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
