Re: PAV and FBA dasd emulated on SCSI

2014-03-20 Thread Keith Gooding
Thank you for your clear and comprehensive reply, Alan. I conclude that if I am concerned about possible I/O queuing with emulated FBA I should consider spreading the I/Os for a particular linux guest across mini-disks but it is OK to have a large SCSI LUNs shared with other guests because CP ma

PAV and FBA DASD emulated on SCSI

2014-03-20 Thread Keith Gooding
I understand that without PAV an ECKD volume cannot have have multiple I/O operations in progress and therefore the operating system (or is it the channel ?) may have to queue I/Os to a volume. I know that this applies to z/OS and I assume that it also applies to z/VM and linux, and may be a rea

PAV and FBA dasd emulated on SCSI

2014-03-20 Thread Keith Gooding
I understand that without PAV an ECKD volume cannot have have multiple I/O operations in progress and therefore the operating system (or is it the channel ?) may have to queue I/Os to a volume. I know that this applies to z/OS and I assume that it also applies to z/VM and linux, and may be a r