Re: Adding memory dynamically to a RHEL6.5 guest running under z/VM 6.3

2014-10-09 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
[mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2014 3:58 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: Adding memory dynamically to a RHEL6.5 guest running under z/VM 6.3 I'm not sure what Terry means by won't count against the memory footprint. Standby

Re: Adding memory dynamically to a RHEL6.5 guest running under z/VM 6.3

2014-10-08 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2014 3:58 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: Adding memory dynamically to a RHEL6.5 guest running under z/VM 6.3 I'm not sure what Terry means by won't count against the memory footprint. Standby and reserved storage is included

Re: Adding memory dynamically to a RHEL6.5 guest running under z/VM 6.3

2014-10-08 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2014 3:58 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: Adding memory dynamically to a RHEL6.5 guest running under z/VM 6.3 I'm not sure what Terry means by won't count against the memory footprint. Standby and reserved storage is included

Adding memory dynamically to a RHEL6.5 guest running under z/VM 6.3

2014-10-02 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
Hi I have a couple of guests that I need to add memory to without recycling the guests. What are the steps and commands to accomplish this? Thanks, Terry -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: Adding memory dynamically to a RHEL6.5 guest running under z/VM 6.3

2014-10-02 Thread Mark Pace
It is not possible to change the memory allocated to a guest without logging off and logging on again. On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Martin, Terry Contractor terry.mar...@ssa.gov wrote: Hi I have a couple of guests that I need to add memory to without recycling the guests. What are the

Re: Adding memory dynamically to a RHEL6.5 guest running under z/VM 6.3

2014-10-02 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Terry, Do you have STANDBY memory defined in the virtual machines? There is a section, 26.2 Set up memory hotplugging in The Virtualization Cookbook for IBM z/VM 6.3, RHEL 6.4, and SLES 11 SP3 on the Web at http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg248147.html Hope it helps. -Mike M. On

Re: Adding memory dynamically to a RHEL6.5 guest running under z/VM 6.3

2014-10-02 Thread Pavelka, Tomas
One way is to have standby memory defined. For example, if you have user LINUX and want to have 512MB with the chance to go up to 2G, then you add the 2G as max memory on the USER directory statement: USER LINUX PASWD 512M 2048M G 64 Then add the following statement to the user directory to

Re: Adding memory dynamically to a RHEL6.5 guest running under z/VM 6.3

2014-10-02 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
dynamically to a RHEL6.5 guest running under z/VM 6.3 One way is to have standby memory defined. For example, if you have user LINUX and want to have 512MB with the chance to go up to 2G, then you add the 2G as max memory on the USER directory statement: USER LINUX PASWD 512M 2048M G 64 Then add

Re: Adding memory dynamically to a RHEL6.5 guest running under z/VM 6.3

2014-10-02 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Michael MacIsaac Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2014 9:49 AM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: Adding memory dynamically to a RHEL6.5 guest running under z/VM 6.3 Terry, Do you have STANDBY memory defined in the virtual machines? There is a section, 26.2 Set up memory

Re: Adding memory dynamically to a RHEL6.5 guest running under z/VM 6.3

2014-10-02 Thread Michael MacIsaac
dynamically to a RHEL6.5 guest running under z/VM 6.3 Terry, Do you have STANDBY memory defined in the virtual machines? There is a section, 26.2 Set up memory hotplugging in The Virtualization Cookbook for IBM z/VM 6.3, RHEL 6.4, and SLES 11 SP3 on the Web at http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts

Re: Adding memory dynamically to a RHEL6.5 guest running under z/VM 6.3

2014-10-02 Thread Mauro Souza
is used is that correct? -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Michael MacIsaac Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2014 9:49 AM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: Adding memory dynamically to a RHEL6.5 guest running under z/VM

Re: Adding memory dynamically to a RHEL6.5 guest running under z/VM 6.3

2014-10-02 Thread Mark Pace
My apologies for being wrong about this. On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Mark Pace pacemainl...@gmail.com wrote: It is not possible to change the memory allocated to a guest without logging off and logging on again. On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Martin, Terry Contractor

Re: Adding memory dynamically to a RHEL6.5 guest running under z/VM 6.3

2014-10-02 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
Thanks guys! -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mauro Souza Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2014 10:44 AM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: Adding memory dynamically to a RHEL6.5 guest running under z/VM 6.3 Terry, You are right

Re: Adding memory dynamically to a RHEL6.5 guest running under z/VM 6.3

2014-10-02 Thread Martin, Terry Contractor
Mark, No problem! -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Pace Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2014 10:49 AM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: Adding memory dynamically to a RHEL6.5 guest running under z/VM 6.3 My apologies

Re: Adding memory dynamically to a RHEL6.5 guest running under z/VM 6.3

2014-10-02 Thread Alan Altmark
On Thursday, 10/02/2014 at 09:37 EDT, Martin, Terry Contractor terry.mar...@ssa.gov wrote: I have a couple of guests that I need to add memory to without recycling the guests. What are the steps and commands to accomplish this? If you didn't plan for it in advance, you can't do it. See

Re: Adding memory dynamically to a RHEL6.5 guest running under z/VM 6.3

2014-10-02 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Martin, Terry Contractor Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2014 07:00 To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: Adding memory dynamically to a RHEL6.5 guest running under z/VM 6.3 Thanks Mike. I will take a look. One question I