Re: Building Second Level VM System For Maintenance

2010-02-12 Thread Mike Walter
Check the IBMVM list archive for a note (and subsequent follow-up discussions) titled: "RELABEL SYSRES" was: Re: Backup RES Labeling Question" I posted it Fri, 4 Sep 2009 11:55:28 -0500 That post (which I really should re-write and re-post when I find a moment), and subsequent discussions prett

Re: Building Second Level VM System For Maintenance

2010-02-12 Thread Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR)
Hi Also remember to print out a copy of the Directory of the Clone or a DIRMAP/DISKMAP these will have the cylinder locations of the your DIRECTORY and SYSTEM CONFIG files. This comes in handy if you should need to change something on the CLONE after building it. You can do a DEFINE MDISK on the 1

Re: Building Second Level VM System For Maintenance

2010-02-12 Thread Thomas Kern
I have two floor systenm (two LPARs), one sysres is VMARES, the other is VMLRES. I also have Z53MAINT and Z54MAINT userids with corresponding 530R ES and 540RES volumes for my second level maintenance. Once you can get your floor system away from using the IBM default volume labels, you can do a

Re: Building Second Level VM System For Maintenance

2010-02-12 Thread Scott Rohling
The sysres can be any name you want to give it.. you just need to update the system config accordingly. You will also need to change the directory for all minidisks that point to it.. Scott On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:22 PM, McDonough, George < george.mcdono...@mmc.com> wrote: > Hello. > > Tha

Re: Building Second Level VM System For Maintenance

2010-02-12 Thread McDonough, George
Hello. Thanks to everyone who responded. I think I'm beginning to get the picture on how to build the environment. My biggest confusion was the cloning process. I was under the impression (either I was told or I read it somewhere) that the system looked for volser 540RES and that name could n

Re: Building Second Level VM System For Maintenance

2010-02-12 Thread fjpohlen-maill...@gmx.de
George, I have described the cloning of a zVM with own volume labels 2 years ago on the thread below. http://listserv.uark.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0807&L=IBMVM&P=R1076&I=-3&X=62B6C21118642982C6&Y=fjpohlen-maillist%40gmx.de Hope this helps. kind regards Franz Josef Pohlen Am 12.02.2010 14:

Re: Building Second Level VM System For Maintenance

2010-02-12 Thread Thomas Kern
I don't have a document reference for you, but I can give you my basic procedures. Create a CLASS G user with the same number of dedicated DASD volumes as y ou used to install your first level system. If you have been able to relabel your floor system to not use the 610RES, 610W01, etc volumes th

Re: Building Second Level VM System For Maintenance

2010-02-12 Thread C. Lawrence Perkins
Mr McDonough, The z/VM "second level system" is the last bastion of WildWestSystemProgramming, you can do anything you want, any way you want . ( as long as it doesn't crash your first-level, of course ). You have two approaches, really, if you have an LPAR environment availabl e. Approach 1 is

Building Second Level VM System For Maintenance

2010-02-12 Thread McDonough, George
Hello, Everyone. We recently installed a z/VM environment (version 5.4) for a Linux proof of concept. Going into this project, we only had minimal VM experience and it was years ago. Despite that, everything went well and we have since moved some of the Linux machines to production. In t

New Virtualization Cookbook for z/VM 6.1 and SLES 11

2010-02-12 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Hello lists (cross posted to linux-390 and ibmvm), Marian Gasparovic and I are pleased to announce a new "cookbook" entitled "z/VM and Linux on IBM System z: The Virtualization Cookbook for SLES 11". It is temporarily at the top of the page: http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/mikemac/ The PDF wei