>>> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 7:58 AM, in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Gentry,
Stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> In a previous IFL/Linux/POC, we set up a Linux running UDB. We wanted to
> allow access to that Linux from two sources: existing mainframe apps.
> and apps. running on WAS (I
ood an idea?
Steve G.
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On Thursday, 04/24/2008 at 10:27 EDT, "
Alan Altmark wrote:
> Amen to that. VM TCP/IP doesn't get any more of a free pass than any
> other guest and gets all the benefits VSWITCH can provide.
>
> The only question you need to be able to answer is: What is your
alternate
> logon path if VM TCP/IP OR the VSWITCH is down? You need to have
My friend Mark worte:
>Even on my legacy VM systems (no Linux guests at all) I define a
VSWITCH with two OSAs (connected to different real switches), and the
only thing attached to the VSWITCH is the TCPIP virtual machine. Prior
to VSWITCH the TCPIP machine attached to both OSAs and VIPA provided f
On Thursday, 04/24/2008 at 11:44 EDT, Mark Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Even on my legacy VM systems (no Linux guests at all) I define a VSWITCH
> with two OSAs (connected to different real switches), and the only thing
> attached to the VSWITCH is the TCPIP virtual machine. Prior to VSWI
The IBM z/VM Operating System wrote on 04/24/2008
10:23:39 PM:
> On Thursday, 04/24/2008 at 10:27 EDT, "Gentry, Stephen"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Ok, I'll ask. Why wouldn't one attach an OSA card directly to a Linux
> > guest?
> > Seriously, why shouldn't this be done?
>
Alan Altmark wro
On Thursday, 04/24/2008 at 10:27 EDT, "Gentry, Stephen"
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> Ok, I'll ask. Why wouldn't one attach an OSA card directly to a Linux
> guest?
> Seriously, why shouldn't this be done?
Off the top of my head:
(a) Security. You now limit what can be done with the OSA since yo
> Ok, I'll ask. Why wouldn't one attach an OSA card directly to a Linux
> guest?
Ties a guest to a particular piece of hardware (failure point), and
forces the guest to handle all the recovery, ARP management, etc. Having
CP do it for multiple guests is a much more resource efficient approach.
I
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>Wait, what are you doing attaching osa's to Linux?
>VSWITCH!
>
>Seriously, I think you use a lot more storage on the Linux guest and
>ma
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Wait, what are you doing attaching osa's to Linux?
VSWITCH!
Seriously, I think you use a lot more storage on the Linux guest and
make him less likely to be idle.
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