Re: General Question

2013-03-02 Thread Mike Hammock
March 02, 2013 11:19 AM To: Subject: Re: General Question On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:53:29 -0500 (EST), David Boyes wrote: ... Since there's not very much industry publicity about IBM's offerings for low cost test infrastructure on Z and P hardware ... I haven't been following this

Re: General Question

2013-03-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:53:29 -0500 (EST), David Boyes wrote: > ... > Since there's not very much industry publicity about IBM's offerings > for low cost test infrastructure on Z and P hardware > ... I haven't been following this thread; but if it's software for Linux for System z, Linux for System

Re: General Question

2013-02-27 Thread David Boyes
> Have a couple of vendors...that say they support SUSE linux 32 and 64 bit ... > Intel only ... > BUT > Do not support z/Linux ??? puzzled Yeah. After all, isn't the whole world Intel-based now that those pesky mainframes are gone? NOT. Mostly it's an issue with testing and QA. Since th

Re: General Question

2013-02-27 Thread Don Williams
tem z, the vendor may not wish to invest the time and money needed support System z. > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of > Ron Wells > Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 12:00 PM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subjec

Re: General Question

2013-02-27 Thread Ron Wells
no--not IBM...and yes >> SAS is one of themif it was up to me I would replace them for WPS...yesterday From: Mark Post To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 02/27/2013 12:31 PM Subject: Re: General Question Sent by:Linux on 390 Port >>> On 2/27/2013 a

Re: General Question

2013-02-27 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 2/27/2013 at 01:16 PM, Ron Wells wrote: > Guess confusion IBM - SUSE hand in hand Are you talking about an IBM product? If not, we have our own team that works with ISVs to get them to support SLES, on whatever architecture the customer needs. That doesn't mean we, or us and

Re: General Question

2013-02-27 Thread Ron Wells
Guess confusion IBM - SUSE hand in hand From: "Gentry, Steve" To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 02/27/2013 12:12 PM Subject: Re: General Question Sent by:Linux on 390 Port I don't doubt that since z is a different architecture (in thei

Re: General Question

2013-02-27 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
, Steve [mailto:steve.gen...@westernsouthernlife.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 12:11 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: General Question I don't doubt that since z is a different architecture (in their minds). There will be some differences between the Linux's but

Re: General Question

2013-02-27 Thread Gentry, Steve
ilto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Ron Wells Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 12:00 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: General Question Have a couple of vendors...that say they support SUSE linux 32 and 64 bit ... Intel only ... BUT Do not support z/Linux ?

Re: General Question

2013-02-27 Thread Kurt Acker
Acker IBM Smarter Planet, Smarter Data Centers Virtualization and Enterprise System Management Technologies From: Ron Wells To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu, Date: 02/27/2013 12:13 PM Subject: Re: General Question Sent by: Linux on 390 Port Have a couple of vendors...that say they support SUSE

Re: General Question

2013-02-27 Thread Ron Wells
Have a couple of vendors...that say they support SUSE linux 32 and 64 bit ... Intel only ... BUT Do not support z/Linux ??? puzzled -- Email Disclaimer This E-mail contains confidential information belonging to the sende

Re: General question on swap file placement ......

2007-01-26 Thread Tom Duerbusch
I use to be in the group that had vdisk and real disk for swap. It just seemed to make sense. Part of that sense was that I had some old RAMACs that I could use for DASD swap. But no more. I only have one class of dasd, DS6800 Ficon attached. It became apparent, that if I was going to dedicate

Re: General question on swap file placement ......

2007-01-26 Thread Romanowski, John (OFT)
y reply e-mail and delete the e-mail from your system. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob van der Heij Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 3:51 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: General question on swap file placement .. -

Re: General question on swap file placement ......

2007-01-25 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 1/25/07, Adam Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jan 25, 2007, at 3:12 PM, Terry Spaulding wrote: > We are using SAN storage... soon we will be phasing out ECKD dasd > for Linux > zSeries. I have not seen performance data of a serious z/VM installation doing paging on SAN disks, but I

Re: General question on swap file placement ......

2007-01-25 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jan 25, 2007, at 3:12 PM, Terry Spaulding wrote: We are using SAN storage... soon we will be phasing out ECKD dasd for Linux zSeries. The question is 'best' practice if you do have to utilize a swap file/partition should it be on dasd/SAN Lun by itself similar to zOS, zVM, zVSE or does the m

Re: General question on swap file placement ......

2007-01-25 Thread Terry Spaulding
We are using SAN storage... soon we will be phasing out ECKD dasd for Linux zSeries. The question is 'best' practice if you do have to utilize a swap file/partition should it be on dasd/SAN Lun by itself similar to zOS, zVM, zVSE or does the majority just place it on the same dasd/SAN Lun volume w

Re: General question on swap file placement ......

2007-01-25 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 1/25/07, Adam Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd say this is not quite true. Place as much swap as you usually use on VDISK. Place some more at lower priority on VDISK if you can spare the VDISK. If you're out of VDISK/are experienceing real storage constraints, then think about a thi

Re: General question on swap file placement ......

2007-01-25 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jan 25, 2007, at 1:26 PM, Rob van der Heij wrote: On 1/25/07, Terry Spaulding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am looking for a best practice when you need a swap file/ partition and would like to hear from all on what they are doing. The best swap disk for Linux on z/VM is VDISK, so I don't

Re: General question on swap file placement ......

2007-01-25 Thread Marcy Cortes
ately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation." -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Terry Spaulding Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 10:58 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [LINUX-390] General questi

Re: General question on swap file placement ......

2007-01-25 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 1/25/07, Terry Spaulding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am looking for a best practice when you need a swap file/partition and would like to hear from all on what they are doing. The best swap disk for Linux on z/VM is VDISK, so I don't think this is an issue. People who use real disk for Lin

General question on swap file placement ......

2007-01-25 Thread Terry Spaulding
I was curious on whether like on zOS, zVM, zVSE best practice of placing page datasets on low use volumes or give page datasets their own volume is also done for Linux zSeries by those out there running production instances where you are running high volume applications, WebSpere, Java based apps,