Re: XCAT disks, and documentation generally

2015-01-28 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Peter, You write: the z/VM v6.3 documentation on OpenStack and XCAT is somewhat scattered and perhaps sparse ... Hmm, yes, I would tend to agree with you. To confuse matters, I believe there is both an open source version of xCAT that you can install yourself, and now a pair of virtual

Re: Strange vswitch problem

2015-01-28 Thread Andrew Lemay
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 12:21 AM, Offer Baruch offerbar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Can you also attach the output of q vswitch vswitch_name access for this vswitch? q vswitch RHTS1 access VSWITCH SYSTEM RHTS1Type: QDIOConnected: 42 Maxconn: INFINITE PERSISTENT RESTRICTED

Optimum Hipersocket MTU

2015-01-28 Thread Donald J.
Can anyone recommend the best hipersocket MTU size for DB/2 Text Search from z/OS to z/Linux ? Choices are 8k/16k/32k/56k. -- Donald J. dona...@4email.net -- http://www.fastmail.com - Access all of your messages and folders wherever you are

Re: Optimum Hipersocket MTU

2015-01-28 Thread Donald J.
Not sure about massive, but fairly large, 16.5M rows. The initial build and index setup took 8.1G diskspace on Linux. I will get a packet trace. -- Donald J. dona...@4email.net On Wed, Jan 28, 2015, at 05:33 AM, Rob van der Heij wrote: On 28 January 2015 at 14:20, Donald J.

Re: Optimum Hipersocket MTU

2015-01-28 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 28 January 2015 at 15:03, Donald J. dona...@4email.net wrote: Not sure about massive, but fairly large, 16.5M rows. The initial build and index setup took 8.1G diskspace on Linux. I will get a packet trace. That sounds like enough to at least consider to worry about things. The benefit

Re: Optimum Hipersocket MTU

2015-01-28 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 28 January 2015 at 14:20, Donald J. dona...@4email.net wrote: Can anyone recommend the best hipersocket MTU size for DB/2 Text Search from z/OS to z/Linux ? Choices are 8k/16k/32k/56k. In many cases it probably will not matter unless the data volume is really massive. If it does matter,

Re: XCAT disks, and documentation generally

2015-01-28 Thread Marci Beach
I think the info you need is within the http://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/wiki/XCAT_Documentation/ doc in link entitled xCAT UI Tutorial on zVM and zLinux. In this doc there is section 6. called Adding resources. There is a window in step 2 called Add didk to pool. Here is a sample of that window

Re: Install of SUSE Linux on IBM z LPAR

2015-01-28 Thread Mark Post
On 1/28/2015 at 04:18 PM, Steve P steve.lin...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am installing SUSE 11.3 on an z LPAR (not under zVM). A full ISO image of the SUSE Linux for zSeries was downloaded (2 dvd's). The dvd is loaded in the HMC cdrom and perform the IPL - Load from Removable Media or

Re: XCAT disks, and documentation generally

2015-01-28 Thread Bishop, Peter
Hi, Thanks to Tom, Marci and Mike and an offline poster (you know who you are!). I'll poke around a bit and once I've done a bit of cloning etc. post a summary of the disk pools and any other special setup for the archives. Best regards Peter

Install of SUSE Linux on IBM z LPAR

2015-01-28 Thread Steve P
Hello, I am installing SUSE 11.3 on an z LPAR (not under zVM). A full ISO image of the SUSE Linux for zSeries was downloaded (2 dvd's). The dvd is loaded in the HMC cdrom and perform the IPL - Load from Removable Media or Server. That works and is loaded successfully and in the Operating

Re: Strange vswitch problem

2015-01-28 Thread Andrew Lemay
Mark, Currently using autolog to via profile exec to authorize users to the VSWITCH CP SET VSWITCH test1 GRANT user vlan I have NICDEF in my user direct adding the nics like below 02272 NICDEF 8000 TYPE QDIO LAN SYSTEM TEST1 MACID 11 02273 NICDEF 8003 TYPE QDIO LAN SYSTEM TEST2 On Wed,

Re: Install of SUSE Linux on IBM z LPAR

2015-01-28 Thread Steve P
In the HMC, under Console Actions, there is a function to Enable FTP access to Removable Mass Storage. Can I use this facility to perform this install? Any assistance would be appreciated. Kind Regards. S. On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Mark Post mp...@suse.com wrote: On 1/28/2015 at

Re: XCAT disks, and documentation generally

2015-01-28 Thread Dave Jones
Hi, all. Make sure that you are using the latest version of the xCAT documentation, too. On the IBM z/VM web site, there are links to both the Icehouse and Havana releases.you want to follow the the Icehouse version. Have a good one, too. DJ On 01/28/2015 12:55 PM, Chuck Brazie wrote: As

Re: Strange vswitch problem

2015-01-28 Thread Ursula Braun
On Wed, 2015-01-28 at 09:50 -0500, Andrew Lemay wrote: What I don't get is my configs are the same for all 42 guests. But this one keeps showing up on guest LAN [root@test-09 ~]# dmesg | grep qeth qeth: loading core functions qeth: register layer 2 discipline qeth 0.0.8000: MAC address

Re: XCAT disks, and documentation generally

2015-01-28 Thread Tom Huegel
I believe the region and group references refer to DIRMAINT groupings.. You may want to brush-up a bit on DIRMAINT. On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 5:42 AM, Marci Beach beac...@us.ibm.com wrote: I think the info you need is within the http://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/wiki/XCAT_Documentation/ doc in link

Re: Network Config Question

2015-01-28 Thread Bishop, Peter
Hi, I have a third entry listed in the xCAT Networks table as well as the two subnets you have. I believe you need to add it but hopefully someone else will confirm that. netname net maskmgtifname gateway dhcpserver tftpserver 10_10_10_0-255_255_255_010.10.10.0

Re: Network Config Question

2015-01-28 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 01/28/2015 at 03:07 EST, Tom Huegel tehue...@gmail.com wrote: You're probably right, but that entry is just an example and will be deleted once I get my problem solved and can create actual VM's. Thanks for pointing that out, it is a good point for everyone to note. Wouldn't

Re: XCAT disks, and documentation generally

2015-01-28 Thread Bishop, Peter
Thanks Chuck. I hear what you're saying about changes to OpenStack :) That's also a good hint on the XCAT1 disk pool. We are keeping an eye on the maintenance links you gave too, and have had to put a few on (e.g. for CMO). I should also have mentioned this excellent Tutorial, which I think

Re: Install of SUSE Linux on IBM z LPAR

2015-01-28 Thread Mark Post
On 1/28/2015 at 07:04 PM, Steve P steve.lin...@gmail.com wrote: In the HMC, under Console Actions, there is a function to Enable FTP access to Removable Mass Storage. Can I use this facility to perform this install? Possibly. The LPAR in question needs to be able to access the FTP ports at

Re: XCAT disks, and documentation generally

2015-01-28 Thread Mark Post
On 1/28/2015 at 07:16 PM, Dave Jones d...@vsoft-software.com wrote: Make sure that you are using the latest version of the xCAT documentation, too. On the IBM z/VM web site, there are links to both the Icehouse and Havana releases.you want to follow the the Icehouse version. I'm

Network Config Question

2015-01-28 Thread Tom Huegel
I have the following problem when I try to provision. I used to be able to do this, but I managed to zap some xCAT tables and am starting from scratch again. Thanks. sl11d130: Adding a disk to SL11D130's directory entry... Done sl11d130: Adding 3390 disk for sl11d130 as 100 ... Done Operating

Re: Strange vswitch problem

2015-01-28 Thread Andrew Lemay
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Ursula Braun ubr...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: On Wed, 2015-01-28 at 09:50 -0500, Andrew Lemay wrote: What I don't get is my configs are the same for all 42 guests. But this one keeps showing up on guest LAN [root@test-09 ~]# dmesg | grep qeth qeth:

Re: Strange vswitch problem

2015-01-28 Thread Mark Post
On 1/28/2015 at 08:38 AM, Andrew Lemay and...@lemay.org wrote: I can ping it from my networks after revoking access to the vswitch and re granting access to the vswitch. In your CP directory, are you using a NICDEF statement and a COMMAND statement to grant authorization to the VSWITCH? If

Re: Strange vswitch problem

2015-01-28 Thread Andrew Lemay
What I don't get is my configs are the same for all 42 guests. But this one keeps showing up on guest LAN [root@test-09 ~]# dmesg | grep qeth qeth: loading core functions qeth: register layer 2 discipline qeth 0.0.8000: MAC address 11:11:11:11:11:11 successfully registered on device eth0 qeth

Re: XCAT disks, and documentation generally

2015-01-28 Thread Chuck Brazie
As others have mentioned; the xCAT_ISO parameter in DMSSICNF COPY contains volume ids that are placed into a DirMaint pool called XCAT1. The other DirMaint disk pools are created by the administrator to hold mini disks for provisioned systems. The Systems Management Application Programming and

Re: Network Config Question

2015-01-28 Thread Nix, Robert P.
As an aside: You probably shouldn¹t post directory entries containing passwords to a mailing list. -- Robert P. Nix | Sr IT Systems Engineer | Data Center Infrastructure Services 507-284-0844 | nix.rob...@mayo.edu applewebdata://7C28AA03-E9D7-4519-A679-80B7EC6A010B/nix.rob...@mayo.edu Mayo

Re: Network Config Question

2015-01-28 Thread Tom Huegel
You're probably right, but that entry is just an example and will be deleted once I get my problem solved and can create actual VM's. Thanks for pointing that out, it is a good point for everyone to note. On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Nix, Robert P. nix.rob...@mayo.edu wrote: As an aside: