Re: Defining SCSI devices for Linux guest

2009-04-30 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 1:00 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Defining SCSI devices for Linux guest On Wednesday, 04/29/2009 at 12:42 EDT, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] baue...@mail.nih.gov wrote: We have a old, small SAN for testing. Previously

Re: Defining SCSI devices for Linux guest

2009-04-30 Thread Dave Jones
devices for Linux guest On Wednesday, 04/29/2009 at 12:42 EDT, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] baue...@mail.nih.gov wrote: We have a old, small SAN for testing. Previously all of our disk storage has been on dasd (3390-9). We have figured out how to access the SAN, build a file system

Defining SCSI devices for Linux guest

2009-04-29 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
We have a old, small SAN for testing. Previously all of our disk storage has been on dasd (3390-9). We have figured out how to access the SAN, build a file system on it and mount the filesystem on one of our test servers. Now we would like to build a Linux guest on this SAN. Is there a way to

Re: Defining SCSI devices for Linux guest

2009-04-29 Thread Dave Jones
Bobby, all you have to do is dedicate the FCP channels that go to the SAN to the Linux guests you want to be able to use them. Let's say you have an FCP channel defined in your IOCP like so: CHPID PATH=(CSS(0),20),SHARED,*

Re: Defining SCSI devices for Linux guest

2009-04-29 Thread Mark Post
On 4/29/2009 at 12:39 PM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] baue...@mail.nih.gov wrote: -snip- Now we would like to build a Linux guest on this SAN. Is there a way to define SCSI devices in user direct so they can be available to the guest? I see I can use 9336 emulation but that seems like a

Re: Defining SCSI devices for Linux guest

2009-04-29 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 04/29/2009 at 12:42 EDT, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] baue...@mail.nih.gov wrote: We have a old, small SAN for testing. Previously all of our disk storage has been on dasd (3390-9). We have figured out how to access the SAN, build a file system on it and mount the filesystem on