Hi, we use it for some guests that during z/VM maint/reipl needs to be up. Since most of our uptime critical guests is duplicated in two z systems with loadbalanser in front, it's just a few that needs relocate. We do these manually, works fine.
Tore Agblad Infrastructure Architect – Mainframe zOpen HCL Technologies Ltd. DA1S Gunnar Engellaus väg 3, 418 78 Gothenburg, Sweden Direct: +46 31 3233569 Mob: +46 76 5533569 www.hcltech.com www.hcl.com ::DISCLAIMER:: The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and intended for the named recipient(s) only. E-mail transmission is not guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or may contain viruses in transmission. The e mail and its contents (with or without referred errors) shall therefore not attach any liability on the originator or HCL or its affiliates. Views or opinions, if any, presented in this email are solely those of the author and may not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of HCL or its affiliates. Any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and / or publication of this message without the prior written consent of authorized representative of HCL is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify the sender immediately. Before opening any email and/or attachments, please check them for viruses and other defects.. -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Robert J Brenneman Sent: den 28 juli 2016 10:37 To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Live Guest Relocation usage ? Hi All - We were having a discussion in the test lab here on the customer usage of guest relocation on VM with SSI - so I decided to hit up the experts. If you are able to, do you actually use the RELOCATE function ? If so, how often ? How many at once ? Do you drive it manually or have you written tools to do it for you ? My theory was that we can guess a customer that performs RELOCATEs will do so something like the following: 4 service outtages per year for CP service times 2 LPARs ( at least ) times 2 relocates per guest ( Out, and back In ) times the number of guests that actually get relocated == the number of relocates per year for that customer. But I could be way off base - feel free to reply direct to me or to the list - whatever suits your fancy. Thanks! -- Jay Brenneman ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/