Re: Moving Root DASD

2012-10-12 Thread Steffen Maier
On 10/11/2012 11:20 PM, Scott Rohling wrote: The easiest thing to do is bring the guest down and LINK these 2 disks from another running Linux .. mount them as /mnt /mnt/disk1 and 2 and copy - I would use rsync: rsync -av /mnt/disk1/ /mnt/disk2 In case you follow down this path, don't forge

RHEL 6.2 dying on shutdown

2012-10-12 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Hello list, This is odd - I'm having a RHEL 6.2 system die on shutdown while trying to shut down the loopback interface: Shutting down system logger: Ý OK ¨ Shutting down interface eth0: Ý OK ¨ Shutting down loopback interface: Ý OK ¨ INFO: task vgs:2171 blocked for more than 120 seconds

Re: Moving Root DASD

2012-10-12 Thread Thomas Denier
Would he need to execute the 'chroot' and 'zipl' commands after copying the disk contents? Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital -Scott Rohling wrote: - >The easiest thing to do is bring the guest down and LINK these 2 >disks >from another running Linux .. mount them as /m

Re: RHEL 6.2 dying on shutdown

2012-10-12 Thread Jon Miller
I don't have a *real* answer for you but I believe that message you're seeing is actually not a kernel oops. There is a configuration option available in the newer kernels that allows the kernel to print a backtrace for any processes stuck in a UNINTERRUPTIBLE state for a defined period (default is

cloning WAS and/or DB2 zLinux servers

2012-10-12 Thread Dave Jones
Hello, gurus Does anyone have any useful advice, hints, tips, etc., about cloning zLinux servers that are supporting either WAS or DB2? Can WAS and DB2 in fact even be installed in such a way that they can be replicated to other zLinux guests easily? Thanks and have a good weekend, too. DJ -

Re: cloning WAS and/or DB2 zLinux servers

2012-10-12 Thread Mark Workman
You can build a 'gold' version with WebSphere installed but without a profile installed, this will allow you to clone a WebSphere server quickly. We have moved away from this and and just clone a server configured for Websphere but let the WebSphere admins do the installation. The reason is we