Re: z/VM z/OS sharing same DASD

2011-04-06 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 04/05/2011 at 06:44 EDT, Karl Huf k...@ntrs.com wrote: Are there good reasons or am I making mountains where there are no molehills? When two disjoint entities have access to the same resources, there are mountains that must be scaled. As others have noted, giving Entity One

Re: z/VM z/OS sharing same DASD

2011-04-06 Thread Karl Huf
Thank you all for the informed responses, they've been most helpful. As we don't have any need for the volumes of either OS to be online to each other I will proceed with a recommendation to segregate the z/VM volumes on to their own LCU(s).

z/VM z/OS sharing same DASD

2011-04-05 Thread Karl Huf
I could have sworn I had seen something about this in a presentation regarding best practices for configuring z/OS z/VM LPAR's that share the same DASD subsystems but now that I need it, no joy. We have 2 (z10) CEC's, each with z/VM and z/OS LPAR's attached via FICON Directors to a pair of

Re: z/VM z/OS sharing same DASD

2011-04-05 Thread Scott Rohling
You're hitting the nail on the head.. 'best practice' is to dedicate the DASD to each LPAR in the IODEF.. but this is best practice when security or data integrity demands 'physical' separation. It keeps you from shooting yourself in the foot and makes it impossible for an LPAR to effect

Re: z/VM z/OS sharing same DASD

2011-04-05 Thread Schuh, Richard
@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: z/VM z/OS sharing same DASD I could have sworn I had seen something about this in a presentation regarding best practices for configuring z/OS z/VM LPAR's that share the same DASD subsystems but now that I need it, no joy. We have 2 (z10) CEC's, each with z/VM and z/OS

Re: z/VM z/OS sharing same DASD

2011-04-05 Thread Marcy Cortes
Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Karl Huf Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 3:44 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: [IBMVM] z/VM z/OS sharing same DASD I could have sworn I had seen something about this in a presentation regarding best practices for configuring z/OS

Re: z/VM z/OS sharing same DASD

2011-04-05 Thread Doug
On 4/5/2011 18:43, Karl Huf wrote: I could have sworn I had seen something about this in a presentation regarding best practices for configuring z/OS z/VM LPAR's that share the same DASD subsystems but now that I need it, no joy. We have 2 (z10) CEC's, each with z/VM and z/OS LPAR's attached