about Chicory

2019-09-17 Thread Rick Troth
Not the first time I've tried to explain Chicory. Here goes. Chicory is a package management scheme that works independently from whatever package management tools the vendor/distributor supports. The downside is that it represents a secondary ecosystem from RPM. The upside is that it offers a sec

Re: KVM and FCP disk without SAN switch

2019-09-17 Thread Robert J Brenneman
aahhh yea. a dark corner of memory gets its first ray of light in a while V7000 and other storwize related products ( SVC, FS9xxx ) now do NPIV on the storage side by default if you are doing a new install. You have to explicitly enable it if you are upgrading from older versions.

Re: KVM and FCP disk without SAN switch

2019-09-17 Thread Christian Borntraeger
On 17.09.19 17:18, Johan Schelling wrote: > I remember that when we started with KVM on LinuxONE around 3/4 years ago we > connected our V7000 directly (without a SAN switch) to the LinuxONE. zVM > worked like a charm, but we had a lot of problems with (the then IBM > supplied) KVM….. We had a

Re: KVM and FCP disk without SAN switch

2019-09-17 Thread Johan Schelling
I remember that when we started with KVM on LinuxONE around 3/4 years ago we connected our V7000 directly (without a SAN switch) to the LinuxONE. zVM worked like a charm, but we had a lot of problems with (the then IBM supplied) KVM….. We had a lot of discussion with both the LinuxONE and the

Re: SLES Enterprise 15 SP1 - THE (The Hessling Editor)

2019-09-17 Thread Rick Troth
Well that explains the missing RPM. Thanks Mark! Probably smart to stick with one ecosystem. I do Chicory because it's not limited to Linux. (Also works for Mac, the BSDs, CYGWIN, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, ad nauseum.) But I'll defer details of that to a separate note. Some artifacts (from any ecosyst

Re: KVM and FCP disk without SAN switch

2019-09-17 Thread Robert J Brenneman
Also be aware that if you want to use NPIV you /must/ have a switch and the switch must explicitly support NPIV since that is a function that requires both FCP Host adapter and switch support to work. On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 7:35 AM Jim Elliott wrote: > Christian: > > Thanks. We will go with a s

Re: SLES Enterprise 15 SP1 - THE (The Hessling Editor)

2019-09-17 Thread Steven Imler
Thank you Mark ... I'll give that a try! JR (Steven) Imler Sr. Software Engineer | Mainframe Division Broadcom office: +1 571.401.8685 2291 Wood Oak Drive | Herndon, Virginia 20171 steven.im...@broadcom.com | broadcom.com -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of

Re: KVM and FCP disk without SAN switch

2019-09-17 Thread Jim Elliott
Christian: Thanks. We will go with a switch to attach the V5010 and decided on an IBM/Cisco SAN32C-6 with 8-port 16 Gb bundle. Jim Elliott Senior Consultant - GlassHouse Systems Inc. On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 6:58 AM Christian Borntraeger < borntrae...@linux.ibm.com> wrote: > On 16.09.19 21:19,

Re: KVM and FCP disk without SAN switch

2019-09-17 Thread Christian Borntraeger
On 16.09.19 21:19, Jim Elliott wrote: > For z/VM you must have a SAN switch to connect FCP attached disk. Is this > also true for KVM (Ubuntu if it matters)? As KVM borrows the FCP support from Linux the answer is the same as for Linux in LPAR. In general the Linux code supports switched fabric a

Re: SLES Enterprise 15 SP1 - THE (The Hessling Editor)

2019-09-17 Thread Mark Post
On 9/16/19 3:56 PM, Steven Imler wrote: > Has anyone been able to get … THE … installed SLES 15 SP1? Yes. ;) > I’ve installed Regina via the SUSE Package Hub, but the … THE … RPM I have > requires earlier shared libraries. I was hoping to find … THE … there as > well, but unfortunately it’s not a