An easy way to do this is using the IBM Wave for z/VM management tool.
Aside of many administration, monitoring, and provisioning capabilities, one can perform live guest relocation via the tool's graphical user interface by just dragging and dropping a given Linux virtual server from one SSI image to another. Also multiple Linux guests can be selected and relocated by dragging and dropping the selected group of servers. Eduardo C Oliveira IBM Exec Client Tech Specialist From: Mauro Souza <thoriu...@gmail.com> To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 07/28/2016 05:06 PM Subject: Re: Live Guest Relocation usage ? Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU> We are doing RELOCATE on our shop for at least two years now. Aside from a strange issue with one LPAR (VMRELO MOVE took down the entire LPAR, IBM could not pinpoint the error and the workaround didn't worked), we had no more problems. Every time we apply a PTF, all guests gets moved from one partition to the other and back. A few times we had to create partitions on one mainframe, we moved everyone to another mainframe, performed the PoR and sent everyone home again. We moved guests to the DR site and back, no issues. Our guests' uptime is larger than the zVM uptime. We almost always move every guest from one partition to the other, rarely we move just a couple of them. We usually create a script to do the move, so it's almost automated. Mauro http://mauro.limeiratem.com - registered Linux User: 294521 Scripture is both history, and a love letter from God. 2016-07-28 17:36 GMT-03:00 Robert J Brenneman <bren...@gmail.com>: > Hi All - > > We were having a discussion in the test lab here on the customer usage of > guest relocation on VM with SSI - so I decided to hit up the experts. > > If you are able to, do you actually use the RELOCATE function ? > If so, how often ? How many at once ? > Do you drive it manually or have you written tools to do it for you ? > > > My theory was that we can guess a customer that performs RELOCATEs will do > so something like the following: > > 4 service outtages per year for CP service > times 2 LPARs ( at least ) > times 2 relocates per guest ( Out, and back In ) > times the number of guests that actually get relocated > == the number of relocates per year for that customer. > > > But I could be way off base - feel free to reply direct to me or to the > list - whatever suits your fancy. > > Thanks! > > -- > Jay Brenneman > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
