z/VM Hardware Configuration Question

2011-01-27 Thread Sherry Everhart
Hello, Everyone. This is my first post to this User Group. Thanks in advance for your help. I have a question... We are running five VSE guests under VM and recently experienced a hardware failure. This has led us to investigate the possibility of installing a spare so that we're not down if

Re: z/VM Hardware Configuration Question

2011-01-27 Thread Mark Pace
I would cable it up and use it! Then if one fails you fail over immediately, no loss of I/O or downtime while our cabling up the new one. On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Sherry Everhart severh...@maccnet.comwrote: Hello, Everyone. This is my first post to this User Group. Thanks in

Re: z/VM Hardware Configuration Question

2011-01-27 Thread McBride, Catherine
Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Sherry Everhart Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 3:50 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: z/VM Hardware Configuration Question Hello, Everyone. This is my first post to this User Group. Thanks in advance for your help. I have

Re: z/VM Hardware Configuration Question

2011-01-27 Thread Alan Altmark
On Thursday, 01/27/2011 at 04:51 EST, Sherry Everhart severh...@maccnet.com wrote: We are running five VSE guests under VM and recently experienced a hardware failure. This has led us to investigate the possibility of installing a ?spare? so that we?re not down if we have another failure

Re: z/VM Hardware Configuration Question

2011-01-27 Thread Robert J Brenneman
the processor itself used to be able to remap a chpid from one physical port to a different one, using the chpid mapping tool in the SE. You may need to have a CE / PE do the work, but I think it's still possible to remap a dud port to a functional one without having to rebuild your IODF. This is