Re: SAN questions

2011-07-14 Thread Craig Collins
). For monitoring the storage definitions we use Velocity to report on the disk. Craig Collins State of WI, DOA, DET On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Ron Wells ron.we...@slfs.com wrote: sure would From: Rick Troth r...@casita.net To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 07/14/2011 01:18 PM

Re: LVM on CKD?

2011-06-09 Thread Craig Collins
Thank you everyone for your confirmation and instructions. It threw off our Linux Support person when YaSt wouldn't keep the LVM option on the disk as he was doing the install. Following the suggestions we were able to configure it and it is working now. Craig Collins State of WI, DOA, DET

LVM on CKD?

2011-06-08 Thread Craig Collins
on these types of devices. Craig Collins State of WI, DOA, DET -- 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

Re: rescue mode

2011-06-01 Thread Craig Collins
need to sign into the server on the ip address listed in the install parameters using the userid and password listed in the parameters. Once in, you will need to mount the server's disk in order to do any updates. Shut it down and reboot when done. Craig Collins State of WI, DOA, DET On Wed, Jun 1

Re: Storage Options

2011-05-12 Thread Craig Collins
. The zSeries channels can be used for native FC or FICON connections. If you want to use NPIV, which I highly recommend, then you need to set the NPIV on for each LPAR where you are using it through the HMC with the channel offline to all LPARs. Craig Collins State of WI, DOA, DET On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7

Re: FBA/SCSI vs ECKD zLinux on VM

2011-03-11 Thread Craig Collins
devices for boot/root/swap and linux server managed FBA/SCSI for data LUNs, but continue to think about moving it all to EDEV FBA definitions. Craig Collins State of WI On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Christian Paro christian.p...@gmail.comwrote: A full set of benchmarks for different disk

Re: TSM server

2011-03-09 Thread Craig Collins
. We decided the best alternative for us was to move it off of zSeries, that it wasn't the best fit for z/Linux. On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.comwrote: On Tuesday, 03/08/2011 at 08:51 EST, Craig Collins grizl...@gmail.com wrote: We were using zLinux to host

Re: TSM server

2011-03-08 Thread Craig Collins
the memory allocations and even after going through all of the DB2 performance tuning parameters for TSM 6.1, we could no longer justify the additional memory cost as compared to stand alone servers for TSM 6.1 so we have moved TSM off of zLinux. Craig Collins State of WI On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 2

Re: EDEV FBA disks and Cloning

2011-03-03 Thread Craig Collins
We created the golden image server on EDEV FBA disk as well so our clone is from EDEV FBA to EDEV FBA. I presume if we are using the CMS FORMAT/RESERVE sequence we should do so for the source golden image build as well as the clone system before copying. When we tried using dd to clone, I

Re: EDEV FBA disks and Cloning

2011-03-03 Thread Craig Collins
1. rebuilt the golden image, preparing the disk with CMS FORMAT RESERVE on EDEV FBA mini-disks 2. prepared the clone system disk with CMS FORMAT RESERVE on EDEV FBA mini-disks 3. Altered the clonerw.sh script so that it recognized the disk as FBA instead of CKD to get the device names and

Re: EDEV FBA disks and Cloning

2011-03-03 Thread Craig Collins
the script does have the sync command executing after the copy with dd completes -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit

Re: EDEV FBA disks and Cloning

2011-03-03 Thread Craig Collins
FYI - the problem we were having with the boot.findself script had to do with upper/lower case matching issues when the script interrogated the sles11 parameter files searching for the source and destination server names and ip addresses. So, the script worked fine once we matched the cases to

EDEV FBA disks and Cloning

2011-03-02 Thread Craig Collins
locally. We think that's more likely the scenario we would want to go with, but we are walking through the above named document to get familiar with that method as a possibility. Craig Collins State of WI, DOA, DET -- For LINUX-390

Autoyast SWAPGEN SLES11

2010-03-05 Thread Craig Collins
to format the SWAPGEN created disk and that is causing the install process to abend. Thanks, Craig Collins State of WI -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu

OSA-Express3 10 Gb, Vswitch, and SLES10 Linux Throughput

2009-10-26 Thread Craig Collins
instance? If so, are there any settings you needed to change to get to that performance level? Or is there a maximum of around 1 Gb that a single server instance can achieve? We're grasping at straws at this point. Any ideas are appreciated. Craig Collins State of WI, DOA, DET

Re: OSA-Express3 10 Gb, Vswitch, and SLES10 Linux Throughput

2009-10-26 Thread Craig Collins
for the info and the quick responses. Craig Collins State of WI, DOA, DET -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http

Re: SLES 11 Install Issue

2009-04-14 Thread Craig Collins
remaining to read 2009-04-14 08:14:12 5 ZVMTST21(2784) [zypp] Exception.cc(log):133 We'll see what turns up. Craig Collins State of WI -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

SLES 11 Install Issue

2009-04-13 Thread Craig Collins
suggestions? Craig Collins State of Wisconsin -- 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

Re: SLES 11 Install Issue

2009-04-13 Thread Craig Collins
. Maybe our copy is incomplete/corrupt. Craig Collins State of WIsconsin On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Mark Post mp...@novell.com wrote: On 4/13/2009 at 11:30 AM, Mark Pace mpac...@gmail.com wrote: They have changed the format of the install paramters. I don't believe so. Use Install

Re: SLES 11 Install Issue

2009-04-13 Thread Craig Collins
We downloaded the media again and re-deployed it on the ftp server, but we still received the media failure error. Any ideas? On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Craig Collins grizl...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, specifying the userid password as part of the ftp specification got us past

Re: Cloning FCP-only Linuxes

2009-01-07 Thread Craig Collins
Yes, we've cloned FCP-only NPIV SLES 10 zLinux systems and have a set of procedures we've written to do so. They are a little raw but I would be willing to share them with you. Drop me a direct email if you want a copy. Craig Collins State of WI, DOA, DET craig.coll...@wi.gov On Fri, Oct 24

Re: z/Linux cloning

2008-08-28 Thread Craig Collins
from golden image LUN to clone image LUN, we can work through the rest of the script to make the necessary alterations to the guest. We're trying to stay away from subsystem provided flashcopy type functions due to licensing costs. Craig Collins State of WI

Re: Synchronous remote copy FCP disk and DR

2008-07-21 Thread Craig Collins
. On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Mark Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 10:05 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Craig Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We tried the cms console command and the tried setting up our fstab and zipl.conf using the by-uuid definitions and still

Synchronous remote copy FCP disk and DR

2008-06-23 Thread Craig Collins
this and knows all of the configuration items we need to update to make this work, we would appreciate the information so we don't have to reinvent the wheel. If not, we'll keep working through this and share what we figure out with the list if anyone is interested. Craig Collins State of WI

Re: zFCP Disk

2008-02-08 Thread Craig Collins
they remembered doing it gave us renewed energy to work through it again. Thank You for the help. We can now put some more old storage to use. Craig Collins State of WI On Feb 6, 2008 3:08 PM, Jerry Whitteridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Clarion requires you to have accessed the storage subsystem

Re: zFCP Disk

2008-02-08 Thread Craig Collins
Sorry, should have written . . . since yast would not complete the define since the LUN was not provisioned on the storage. On Feb 8, 2008 11:25 AM, Craig Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We did get it to work. Not exactly with the steps listed since yast would not complete the define since

Peoplesoft/Oracle on SUSE Linux under zSeries

2008-02-08 Thread Craig Collins
validate it is an option which should be considered. Thanks in advance for any information. Craig Collins State of WI -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message

Re: zFCP Disk

2008-02-06 Thread Craig Collins
connection, as if the NPIV id was not logged into the switch. So, are you using NPIV with the connections to the EMC Clariion and if so, do you have any other tips from your experience that might help us get this to work? Craig Collins State of WI On Feb 1, 2008 2:35 PM, Jerry Whitteridge [EMAIL PROTECTED

NPIV FCP connections through Multiple FC Switches

2007-09-06 Thread Craig Collins
should look at? Craig Collins State of Wisconsin -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex

Re: NPIV FCP connections through Multiple FC Switches

2007-09-06 Thread Craig Collins
did not need to be in the zone definition if only the local switch was used. Craig Collins State of Wisconsin On 9/6/07, Craig Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're running into a configuration issue trying to get NPIV FCP connections to work through a switched fabric distributed across two