Re: Disaster Recovery question

2008-03-12 Thread Alain Benveniste
We have 1 VM and 20 MVS.

At DR site we have a IBM VM used to restore our VM hypervisor.
The VM volumes for the hypervisor are the same DASD we used into prod. We

say that all the cpowned dasd are absolutely required for our DR VM. (Us,
 we
use Hidro to restore, so the catalog is on a cpowned dasd).  We omit TDIS
K
and PAGE from the backup. They are formated at DR site.
The VM in prod sees all the DASD volumes. Before each DDR backup, we exec
ute
a rexx pipe to create a map of all the rdev with the corresponding volser
.
The rexx updates all the VM  MVS directories. VMIMAGE contains all t
he
MDISK, all the directories have a link to this userid. 
At DR site, just after restoring our VM, we IPL it at 1st level. We
reexecute our rexx tool which  is used to query all the dasd available an
d
do the fastidious work to map DASD volumes at model level : input is 3380
-3,
 output is 3380-3 not something else. Then the dasd is labeled. When all
this work is done, we execute the restore. We do the mapping address this

manner. Because everything was labeled as it was when we were in prod, we

never meet a problem when we restore.
- We always do our DR on the same site, VTAM and TCPIP configs are
hardcoded. The proper config is applied to them by testing the cpuid. 
- We use vtctc to communicate between the mvs.

We used this method for 5 years twice per year.

Alain Benveniste
Paris, France


Re: Disaster Recovery question

2008-03-11 Thread Lee Stewart
In addition to all the good advice already, I will add: Do not try to 
run your VM system 2nd level if you have Linux guests.   Performance of 
the Linux guests will be terrible.  There are only two levels of 
hardware virtualization.  That leaves your Linux guests being 
virtualized in software simulation -- which is way slow...


Either run your VM in their LPAR, or if you have a small number of 
guests, just run your Linux machines in their VM.


Most DR vendors should know better than recommending VM under VM if 
you have Linux guests, but


Lee

Karl Kingston wrote:


We are in the process of planning our first disaster recovery of our 
z/VM system.  


We have access to an LPAR at our DR hotsite.

1) how do I account for differences in OSA addresses,  Hipersocket 
addresses, and DASD addresses?The only DASD ww have that are VM only 
us the 530RES, 530SPL and 3 page volumes.All other devices are for 
z/Linux and are dedicated by directory entries.  

My take was to bring up z/VM 2nd level on the hotsite's floor system and 
run with that.   But they are not recommending it.


What can I do to avoid making config changes because of DR?

Thanks!



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Sirius Computer Solutions
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Fax:   (720) 228-2321
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Re: Disaster Recovery question

2008-03-11 Thread Gentry, Stephen
VM is volume id based. (Many years ago, it was not).  That being said,
VM, when it is IPL'ed, will go and look at all of the dasd that it can
touch and find out, among other things, what the volid is.  Only if it
can't find a volid will inform you.  It's up to you how to handle that
situation.  The DR site will most likely give you the real address of
the OSA cards.  Depending on how you have yours defined, i.e, DEDICATE
statement, etc.  you just change the real address on the statement to
point to their real address.  You leave the virtual address, the address
that you apps know it as, alone.

To echo your DR site provider recommendations, you do not want to run VM
2nd level in a production or DR situation.  Yes, it will run, but not as
well as natively.  We restore our base system,(about 12 tapes) 2nd
level, then IPL that 1st level and start restoring everything else.

Steve G.

 



From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Karl Kingston
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 1:21 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Disaster Recovery question

 


We are in the process of planning our first disaster recovery of our
z/VM system.   

We have access to an LPAR at our DR hotsite. 

1) how do I account for differences in OSA addresses,  Hipersocket
addresses, and DASD addresses?The only DASD ww have that are VM only
us the 530RES, 530SPL and 3 page volumes.All other devices are for
z/Linux and are dedicated by directory entries.   

My take was to bring up z/VM 2nd level on the hotsite's floor system and
run with that.   But they are not recommending it. 

What can I do to avoid making config changes because of DR? 

Thanks! 



Re: Disaster Recovery question

2008-03-11 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 03/11/2008 at 10:41 EDT, Lee Stewart 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 In addition to all the good advice already, I will add: Do not try to
 run your VM system 2nd level if you have Linux guests.   Performance of
 the Linux guests will be terrible.  There are only two levels of
 hardware virtualization.  That leaves your Linux guests being
 virtualized in software simulation -- which is way slow...

The Interpretive Execution Facility (SIE) is not really simulated so much 
as there is a pancake effect as the description of the nth level virtual 
machine is transformed by each layer of CP into a successively smaller SIE 
descriptor.  E.g. 50% of the 3rd-level guest pages appear to be resident, 
as far as the 2nd-level CP is concerned.  But not really.  Only half of 
the 2nd level CP's pages are, in fact, resident.  Maybe that means only 
25% of the 3rd level guest pages are really resident.  Add to that, the 
3rd level guest is getting a slice of a slice of the CPU.  And, finally, 
I/O is going through multiple address translations.

So if you want to use z/VM only as a thin RDEV translator you need to 
very specifically size and configure the 1st-level system to do that. This 
could mean each hosting z/VM LPAR has only a single second-level z/VM, 
with locked pages, dedicated XSTORE, dedicated CPUs, elongated time 
slices, and so on.

These kinds of thing don't eliminate the pancake effect, of course, but 
they can help minimize shrinkage (ahem) of the virtual machine as it 
glides towards the hardware.

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott


Disaster Recovery question

2008-03-10 Thread Karl Kingston
We are in the process of planning our first disaster recovery of our z/VM 
system. 

We have access to an LPAR at our DR hotsite.

1) how do I account for differences in OSA addresses,  Hipersocket 
addresses, and DASD addresses?The only DASD ww have that are VM only 
us the 530RES, 530SPL and 3 page volumes.All other devices are for 
z/Linux and are dedicated by directory entries. 

My take was to bring up z/VM 2nd level on the hotsite's floor system and 
run with that.   But they are not recommending it. 

What can I do to avoid making config changes because of DR?

Thanks!



Re: Disaster Recovery question

2008-03-10 Thread Stephen Frazier
Unless the hotsite is willing to reconfigure their machine to match your addresses you must run 
second level. I have never known of a hotsite that will do that. Define a guest on their VM with all 
the right addresses. Bring your system up second level on that guest.


Karl Kingston wrote:


We are in the process of planning our first disaster recovery of our 
z/VM system.  


We have access to an LPAR at our DR hotsite.

1) how do I account for differences in OSA addresses,  Hipersocket 
addresses, and DASD addresses?The only DASD ww have that are VM only 
us the 530RES, 530SPL and 3 page volumes.All other devices are for 
z/Linux and are dedicated by directory entries.  

My take was to bring up z/VM 2nd level on the hotsite's floor system and 
run with that.   But they are not recommending it.


What can I do to avoid making config changes because of DR?

Thanks!



--
Stephen Frazier
Information Technology Unit
Oklahoma Department of Corrections
3400 Martin Luther King
Oklahoma City, Ok, 73111-4298
Tel.: (405) 425-2549
Fax: (405) 425-2554
Pager: (405) 690-1828
email:  stevef%doc.state.ok.us


Re: Disaster Recovery question

2008-03-10 Thread Marcy Cortes
Not necessarily.

All you really need is SYSTEM NETID based on the CPU of the hotsite that
triggers TCPIP to use different config files. 

We run different OSA addresses and routing configs in our hotsite env
(in house, but same concept).

(Don't use ATTACH and DEDICATE - have your attach instructs in TCPIPs
dtcparm files and you won't have anything to update when you get there
:)



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Unless the hotsite is willing to reconfigure their machine to match your
addresses you must run second level. I have never known of a hotsite
that will do that. Define a guest on their VM with all the right
addresses. Bring your system up second level on that guest.

Karl Kingston wrote:
 
 We are in the process of planning our first disaster recovery of our 
 z/VM system.
 
 We have access to an LPAR at our DR hotsite.
 
 1) how do I account for differences in OSA addresses,  Hipersocket 
 addresses, and DASD addresses?The only DASD ww have that are VM
only 
 us the 530RES, 530SPL and 3 page volumes.All other devices are for

 z/Linux and are dedicated by directory entries.  
 
 My take was to bring up z/VM 2nd level on the hotsite's floor system
and 
 run with that.   But they are not recommending it.
 
 What can I do to avoid making config changes because of DR?
 
 Thanks!
 

--
Stephen Frazier
Information Technology Unit
Oklahoma Department of Corrections
3400 Martin Luther King
Oklahoma City, Ok, 73111-4298
Tel.: (405) 425-2549
Fax: (405) 425-2554
Pager: (405) 690-1828
email:  stevef%doc.state.ok.us


Re: Disaster Recovery question

2008-03-10 Thread Schuh, Richard
You could use the volume serial in any DEDICATE statements in place of
the real address (DEDICATE vdev volid or DEDICATE vdev VOLID volid).
That could save you from having to make that kind of directory change. 

Regards, 
Richard Schuh 

 

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 snip 
 
 Your ATTACHes or DEDICATEs have a virtual address and a real 
 address.  You will need to update the real addresses to match 
 your DR config.  Leave the virtual addresses alone.  
 Remember, ATTACH and DEDICATE have significantly different syntax:
   ATTACH rdev vdev
   DEDICATE vdev rdev
 
 Alan Altmark
 z/VM Development
 IBM Endicott
 


Re: Disaster Recovery question

2008-03-10 Thread Marcy Cortes
 
Ooo, wait.
You said Linux devices are DEDICATE.  Does that mean DASD too?  Do you
have duplicate VOLSERS on your system?
If not, you can probably change the DEDICATEs to MDISK 000 END and be
OK, or if you'd like DEDICATE nnn VOLID VOLXXX ...  That'll get you
around that use of real addresses.





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Not necessarily.

All you really need is SYSTEM NETID based on the CPU of the hotsite that
triggers TCPIP to use different config files. 

We run different OSA addresses and routing configs in our hotsite env
(in house, but same concept).

(Don't use ATTACH and DEDICATE - have your attach instructs in TCPIPs
dtcparm files and you won't have anything to update when you get there
:)



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Subject: Re: [IBMVM] Disaster Recovery question

Unless the hotsite is willing to reconfigure their machine to match your
addresses you must run second level. I have never known of a hotsite
that will do that. Define a guest on their VM with all the right
addresses. Bring your system up second level on that guest.

Karl Kingston wrote:
 
 We are in the process of planning our first disaster recovery of our 
 z/VM system.
 
 We have access to an LPAR at our DR hotsite.
 
 1) how do I account for differences in OSA addresses,  Hipersocket 
 addresses, and DASD addresses?The only DASD ww have that are VM
only 
 us the 530RES, 530SPL and 3 page volumes.All other devices are for

 z/Linux and are dedicated by directory entries.  
 
 My take was to bring up z/VM 2nd level on the hotsite's floor system
and 
 run with that.   But they are not recommending it.
 
 What can I do to avoid making config changes because of DR?
 
 Thanks!
 

--
Stephen Frazier
Information Technology Unit
Oklahoma Department of Corrections
3400 Martin Luther King
Oklahoma City, Ok, 73111-4298
Tel.: (405) 425-2549
Fax: (405) 425-2554
Pager: (405) 690-1828
email:  stevef%doc.state.ok.us


Re: Disaster Recovery question

2008-03-10 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 03/10/2008 at 01:52 EDT, Schuh, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:
 You could use the volume serial in any DEDICATE statements in place of
 the real address (DEDICATE vdev volid or DEDICATE vdev VOLID volid).
 That could save you from having to make that kind of directory change.

Cool.  I did not know that.  But for OSAs and FCPs, you still need to do 
the reconfig.  Using a VSWITCH instead of dedicating OSAs reduces the 
effort even further. 

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott


Re: Disaster Recovery question

2008-03-10 Thread Karl Kingston
Right. Not a problem using DEDICATE nn VOLID VOLSER.

We also have hipersockets and OSA devices defined with DEDICATE 
statements.

That's where the big question comes into play.   How do we handle these.




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Ooo, wait.
You said Linux devices are DEDICATE.  Does that mean DASD too?  Do you
have duplicate VOLSERS on your system?
If not, you can probably change the DEDICATEs to MDISK 000 END and be
OK, or if you'd like DEDICATE nnn VOLID VOLXXX ...  That'll get you
around that use of real addresses.





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Not necessarily.

All you really need is SYSTEM NETID based on the CPU of the hotsite that
triggers TCPIP to use different config files. 

We run different OSA addresses and routing configs in our hotsite env
(in house, but same concept).

(Don't use ATTACH and DEDICATE - have your attach instructs in TCPIPs
dtcparm files and you won't have anything to update when you get there
:)



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Unless the hotsite is willing to reconfigure their machine to match your
addresses you must run second level. I have never known of a hotsite
that will do that. Define a guest on their VM with all the right
addresses. Bring your system up second level on that guest.

Karl Kingston wrote:
 
 We are in the process of planning our first disaster recovery of our 
 z/VM system.
 
 We have access to an LPAR at our DR hotsite.
 
 1) how do I account for differences in OSA addresses,  Hipersocket 
 addresses, and DASD addresses?The only DASD ww have that are VM
only 
 us the 530RES, 530SPL and 3 page volumes.All other devices are for

 z/Linux and are dedicated by directory entries. 
 
 My take was to bring up z/VM 2nd level on the hotsite's floor system
and 
 run with that.   But they are not recommending it. 
 
 What can I do to avoid making config changes because of DR?
 
 Thanks!
 

--
Stephen Frazier
Information Technology Unit
Oklahoma Department of Corrections
3400 Martin Luther King
Oklahoma City, Ok, 73111-4298
Tel.: (405) 425-2549
Fax: (405) 425-2554
Pager: (405) 690-1828
email:  stevef%doc.state.ok.us



Re: Disaster Recovery question

2008-03-10 Thread Marcy Cortes
For the TCPIP machines, it's not too difficult.
You have an alternate machine or config files and in the dtcparms something
like
 
:nick.TCPIPDR   :type.server
   :class.stack
   :attach.3000-3002   

And you can bring up that service machine instead.
 
Or change the system netids to make it something like DRSYS and instead of
picking up say PROFILE TCPIP it will pick up DRSYS TCPIP with appropriate
DRSYS DTCPARMs.
 
 
 

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Right. Not a problem using DEDICATE nn VOLID VOLSER. 

We also have hipersockets and OSA devices defined with DEDICATE
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That's where the big question comes into play.   How do we handle these. 




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Ooo, wait.
You said Linux devices are DEDICATE.  Does that mean DASD too?  Do you
have duplicate VOLSERS on your system?
If not, you can probably change the DEDICATEs to MDISK 000 END and be
OK, or if you'd like DEDICATE nnn VOLID VOLXXX ...  That'll get you
around that use of real addresses.





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Not necessarily.

All you really need is SYSTEM NETID based on the CPU of the hotsite that
triggers TCPIP to use different config files. 

We run different OSA addresses and routing configs in our hotsite env
(in house, but same concept).

(Don't use ATTACH and DEDICATE - have your attach instructs in TCPIPs
dtcparm files and you won't have anything to update when you get there
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Unless the hotsite is willing to reconfigure their machine to match your
addresses you must run second level. I have never known of a hotsite
that will do that. Define a guest on their VM with all the right
addresses. Bring your system up second level on that guest.

Karl Kingston wrote:
 
 We are in the process of planning our first disaster recovery of our 
 z/VM system.
 
 We have access to an LPAR at our DR hotsite.
 
 1) how do I account for differences in OSA addresses,  Hipersocket 
 addresses, and DASD addresses?The only DASD ww have that are VM
only 
 us the 530RES, 530SPL and 3 page volumes.All other devices are for

 z/Linux and are dedicated by directory entries.  
 
 My take was to bring up z/VM 2nd level on the hotsite's floor system
and 
 run with that.   But they are not recommending it.
 
 What can I do to avoid making config changes because of DR?
 
 Thanks!
 

--
Stephen Frazier
Information Technology Unit
Oklahoma Department of Corrections
3400 Martin Luther King
Oklahoma City, Ok, 73111-4298
Tel.: (405) 425-2549
Fax: (405) 425-2554
Pager: (405) 690-1828
email:  stevef%doc.state.ok.us




Re: Disaster Recovery question

2008-03-10 Thread awhite
We do ours via NAT translation in the router. The network people make it 
transparent to the OS be it z/VM or z/OS. On the systems we maintain the 
same IP addresses as production. Then when we go to the DR site (which is 
an internal site) we translate 10.9 to 10.25. Then no need to change 
anything on the local systems in DR mode.


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 We are in the process of planning our first disaster recovery of our
 z/VM system. 
 
 We have access to an LPAR at our DR hotsite. 
 
 1) how do I account for differences in OSA addresses,  Hipersocket 
 addresses, and DASD addresses?The only DASD ww have that are VM 
 only us the 530RES, 530SPL and 3 page volumes.All other devices 
 are for z/Linux and are dedicated by directory entries. 
 
 My take was to bring up z/VM 2nd level on the hotsite's floor system
 and run with that.   But they are not recommending it. 
 
 What can I do to avoid making config changes because of DR? 
 
 Thanks! 

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Re: Disaster Recovery question

2008-03-10 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 03/10/2008 at 01:23 EDT, Karl Kingston [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:
 We are in the process of planning our first disaster recovery of our 
z/VM 
 system.   
 
 We have access to an LPAR at our DR hotsite. 
 
 1) how do I account for differences in OSA addresses,  Hipersocket 
addresses, 
 and DASD addresses?The only DASD ww have that are VM only us the 
530RES, 
 530SPL and 3 page volumes.All other devices are for z/Linux and are 
 dedicated by directory entries.   
 
 My take was to bring up z/VM 2nd level on the hotsite's floor system and 
run 
 with that.   But they are not recommending it. 
 
 What can I do to avoid making config changes because of DR? 

If you're going to come up 1st level, you will HAVE to make config 
changes.

Your ATTACHes or DEDICATEs have a virtual address and a real address.  You 
will need to update the real addresses to match your DR config.  Leave the 
virtual addresses alone.  Remember, ATTACH and DEDICATE have significantly 
different syntax:
  ATTACH rdev vdev
  DEDICATE vdev rdev

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott


Re: Disaster Recovery question

2008-03-10 Thread Mike Walter
 Company*
 * Command format- n/a  *
 * Called by - TCPIP DTCPARMS file on TCPMAINT 198 disk.  *
 * Program Lang. - CMS REXX *
 * Date Written  - 20010626 *
 * Author- Anon E. Mouse*
 * Changed | By  | Description of Change*
 * +-+- *
 * mmdd  iii - Added attaching D.R. OSA's at prod addresses *
 *  *
 /

The same code:
   parse value diag(08,'QUERY USERID') with . . ConfigSysId . '15'x . 
   /* The above is the SYSTEM CONFIG value */
   ?home=(ConfigSysId='MYHOMEID')/* --- Change to your nodename */
   ?recover=(ConfigSysId='RECOVERY') /* We use this for on-site D.R. */
 
   ?disaster=(ConfigSysId='DISASTER')  /* This for off-site D.R. */
can be used by various service machines (maybe AUTOLOG1?) to decide
what should be done automatically based on where they are being started.

Mike Walter 
Hewitt Associates 
Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily 
represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates.



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We are in the process of planning our first disaster recovery of our z/VM 
system.   

We have access to an LPAR at our DR hotsite. 

1) how do I account for differences in OSA addresses,  Hipersocket 
addresses, and DASD addresses?The only DASD ww have that are VM only 
us the 530RES, 530SPL and 3 page volumes.All other devices are for 
z/Linux and are dedicated by directory entries.   

My take was to bring up z/VM 2nd level on the hotsite's floor system and 
run with that.   But they are not recommending it. 

What can I do to avoid making config changes because of DR? 

Thanks! 




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