Re: VTAPE from Virtual Software Systems

I can only echo what others, (particularly Richard Schuh, with his very good overview), has said. We use VTAPE extensively and it really comes into it's own when you need a large number of concurrent drives and the data on the virtual tapes is small or indeterminate. Support from VSSI is

FW: VTAPE from Virtual Software Systems

We considered VTAPE some years ago, but then went out and bought a brand-new IBM VTS. It's shared between our (very old) VM/ESA 2.4 and (even older) OS/390 systems. It's set up so that OS/390 sees a string of 16x 3490Es and VM sees 32x 3490E. We use a lot of NL tapes, and the data format on

Re: electronic download of z/VM

Graeme Moss wrote: Here is my experience with my testing of electronic delivery of z/VM. It may be of use to others in similar situations or fellow listers may be able to suggest improvements. For electronic delivery IBM recommends the installer download the zip files to their workstation,

AW: VTAPE from Virtual Software Systems

I will also consider the MDL from BusTech. Linux appliance, and with ( far more ) installations, and supports also FICON 4. It goes from 1 ESCON Channel to 12 FICONS, and you can also attach any open system storage. Moreover, it replaces a VTS, VSM, 3494, without a piece of software in the

VM guest system using a VSWITCH

I am setting up a guest VM system that will be using VSWITCH. Does this require the first level host VM system to be running a vswitch?

Re: VM guest system using a VSWITCH

Duane Weaver wrote: I am setting up a guest VM system that will be using VSWITCH. Does this require the first level host VM system to be running a vswitch? No Kim

z/VM Capacity Planning tools and methods

I am curious what methods / tools are employed to do z/VM capacity planning? I understand that there are a couple popular z/VM performance monitors. What I'd like to better understand is what you may do to automatically collect that data and feed it into something for capacity planning,

Re: z/VM Capacity Planning tools and methods

We use Velocity. ESAMAP runs at midnight automatically and as part of the process have it send MICS formatted data to a z/OS system where the Capacity folks run it through their stuff. Bob Bates Enterprise Hosting Services - Enterprise Virtualization - z/VM and z/Linux

Re: z/VM Capacity Planning tools and methods

Ditto here. We send it via Standard Label (virtual) tapes with a 366 day retpd in case it needs to be reproccessed. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates - Original Message - From: Bob Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09/04/2008 04:38 PM EST To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: z/VM Capacity

Re: z/VM Capacity Planning tools and methods

We use the standard z/VM monitor data sent over (automatically) to z/OS daily to be processed with MXG. It gets put to a weekly tape and saved for 52 weeks. Paul Feller AIT Mainframe Technical Support From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL

MORE THAN HALF THE MAINFRAME MIPS IBM SELLS ARE LINUX?

Any truth to this? Someone at work forwarded it to me. The web site works . David Boyes of Sine Nomine Associates is quoted. MORE THAN HALF THE MAINFRAME MIPS IBM SELLS ARE LINUX? http://go.techtarget.com/r/4319857/567040 Matt Stansberry, Senior Site Editor By some estimates, since this past

Re: VMFTP Return Code -5

I don't remember if anyone's mentioned this, so here goes. In VMFTP you can get the full test of the error message as follows in your VMFTP file: 'put 'fn'.'ft'.'fm problem'.49R.000.'ofn'.'oft'.PACKED.1024' If RC%100 2 Then Signal Oops . . . Oops:

Re: MORE THAN HALF THE MAINFRAME MIPS IBM SELLS ARE LINUX?

On 9/5/2008 at 12:18 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alan Ackerman[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any truth to this? Someone at work forwarded it to me. The web site works. David Boyes of Sine Nomine Associates is quoted. I doubt it. As was mentioned in one of the comments, the figures most