GDPS/XRC

2007-08-21 Thread Susan Zimmerman
Hi Listers. We are in the planning stages of implementing GDPS/XRC. We have z/OS, z/VM, and Linux on zSeries (running as guests on z/VM). z/VM is at 5.3 installed on CKD. Linux is SLES9 SP3 installed on CKD and SCSI. CKD for / (root) and SCSI for "user" data. The SCSI is via ED

Re: GDPS/XRC mirroring of VM volumes

2007-05-22 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
Good news, after flashcopy yesterday and xrecover today, VM and both linuxes that I checked came up at the DR site today. On VM, perfkit is fine, my spool files are there, but I did have to do a cold start. Pretty slick. MA On 5/21/07, Mary Anne Matyaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We didn't seem

Re: GDPS/XRC mirroring of VM volumes

2007-05-21 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
We didn't seem to have a problem with them. We only really have CMS,(I think, I'm a newbie. Maybe performance monitor too?) and it was fine. And we only really have two real users, sysprogs. I *have* had to rebuild the cms nss after a full volume restore before, so I would have (hopefully) recogn

Re: GDPS/XRC mirroring of VM volumes

2007-05-21 Thread Jack H. Slavick
A quick question for MAHow did you handle your NSS/DCSS files? Jack H. Slavick Acxiom Corp.

Re: GDPS/XRC mirroring of VM volumes

2007-05-15 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
Of Marcy Cortes > Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 7:06 PM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: GDPS/XRC mirroring of VM volumes > > > Is anyone out there doing this? > > We're attempting to mirror some volumes from one data center to the > other to imp

Re: GDPS/XRC mirroring of VM volumes

2007-05-15 Thread RPN01
IBM > DASD. > > -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Marcy Cortes > Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 7:06 PM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: GDPS/XRC mirroring of VM volumes > > > Is anyone

Re: GDPS/XRC mirroring of VM volumes

2007-05-15 Thread PDDitzer
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Re: GDPS/XRC mirroring of VM volumes

2007-05-14 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
We mirror our volumes from one data center to another but we are not using IBM DASD. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 7:06 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: GDPS/XRC mirroring of

GDPS/XRC mirroring of VM volumes

2006-11-13 Thread Marcy Cortes
Is anyone out there doing this? We're attempting to mirror some volumes from one data center to the other to improve our disaster recovery times. It turns out there are a lot of restrictions when doing VM volumes - timestamping of I/O is not done (it is by Linux guests though) so lots of error mes