Re: SAN and Linux on zSeries

2007-12-09 Thread David Boyes
No no ... it's not a question of how many guests can share an FCP adapter. The trouble is that directly connected guests are managerially more like discrete systems, so there is no way from VM to manage the storage. Why is it important that VM manage the storage? Why can't give me a

Re: SAN and Linux on zSeries

2007-12-09 Thread Alan Altmark
On Sunday, 12/09/2007 at 09:18 EST, David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No no ... it's not a question of how many guests can share an FCP adapter. The trouble is that directly connected guests are managerially more like discrete systems, so there is no way from VM to manage the

Re: SAN and Linux on zSeries

2007-12-09 Thread Alan Altmark
On Saturday, 12/08/2007 at 02:02 EST, Raymond Higgs/Poughkeepsie/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not all 480 subchannels can be used with NPIV because of switch limitations. The 480 number was chosen arbitrarily from the layout of the SIGA vector long before NPIV was implemented. I think