Re: More words on The Virtualization Cookbook Redbook residency

2013-06-14 Thread Leland Lucius
On 6/13/2013 2:40 PM, Rick Troth wrote: Or maybe a compiled smiucv should also be on the Downloads page? ... I'll talk to Leland about shipping a prebuilt one, though -- no need to force a toolchain install if not needed. CORRECT. And for external facing or cloud guests, it's important to

Re: More words on The Virtualization Cookbook Redbook residency

2013-06-13 Thread Michael MacIsaac
David, 1) a section on setting up the CMS SSL server to provide secure management traffic transport. 2) a section on enabling SMAPI and the use of smaclient to manipulate the images. We had talked about the SSL server early. Apparently this is a complicated install. Given the quantity of

Re: More words on The Virtualization Cookbook Redbook residency

2013-06-13 Thread Will, Chris
Of Michael MacIsaac Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 12:42 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: More words on The Virtualization Cookbook Redbook residency David, 1) a section on setting up the CMS SSL server to provide secure management traffic transport. 2) a section on enabling SMAPI

Re: More words on The Virtualization Cookbook Redbook residency

2013-06-13 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Chris, ./smaclient smiucv will compile it and place it in the current directory. Yes, that worked! Thanks. For some reason, I thought that process was done auto-magically. Mike MacIsaac mikemac at-sign us.ibm.com -- For

Re: More words on The Virtualization Cookbook Redbook residency

2013-06-13 Thread David Boyes
1) a section on setting up the CMS SSL server to provide secure management traffic transport. 2) a section on enabling SMAPI and the use of smaclient to manipulate the images. We had talked about the SSL server early. Apparently this is a complicated install. Given the quantity of

Re: More words on The Virtualization Cookbook Redbook residency

2013-06-13 Thread Rick Troth
Or maybe a compiled smiucv should also be on the Downloads page? ... I'll talk to Leland about shipping a prebuilt one, though -- no need to force a toolchain install if not needed. CORRECT. And for external facing or cloud guests, it's important to NOT have the toolchain available. Yeah,

More words on The Virtualization Cookbook Redbook residency

2013-06-12 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Hello lists, Thought I'd blog a bit more on The Virtualization Cookbook residency. The first week we got a z/VM ESP system installed in a 2-node SSI cluster. We defined an IDENTITY (aka an MCVM) named LNXADMIN with the system on one member being focused on RHEL and the other on SLES (addressing

Re: More words on The Virtualization Cookbook Redbook residency

2013-06-12 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Michael MacIsaac Hello lists, Thought I'd blog a bit more on The Virtualization Cookbook residency. [ snip ] Today starts work day 8 of 20 and we still have many items on our plate that we'll try to address (I had

Re: More words on The Virtualization Cookbook Redbook residency

2013-06-12 Thread Michael MacIsaac
John, you might include a (sub)chapter on setting up a Hipersockets network. Thanks for the input - we will add it to the (wish) list... Mike MacIsaac mikemac at-sign us.ibm.com -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: More words on The Virtualization Cookbook Redbook residency

2013-06-12 Thread Will, Chris
@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: More words on The Virtualization Cookbook Redbook residency Hello lists, Thought I'd blog a bit more on The Virtualization Cookbook residency. The first week we got a z/VM ESP system installed in a 2-node SSI cluster. We defined an IDENTITY (aka an MCVM) named LNXADMIN

Re: More words on The Virtualization Cookbook Redbook residency

2013-06-12 Thread Jonathan Quay
Since that is a fairly key differentiator for the Z environment, and something that management can probably understand (hey, look, cross memory networking), you should really try to have a page or two on setting it up. On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Michael MacIsaac mike...@us.ibm.comwrote:

Re: More words on The Virtualization Cookbook Redbook residency

2013-06-12 Thread Veencamp, Jonathon D.
Is there already zVM/zLinux documentation contrasting benefits/costs of Hipersockets vs shared OSA offload? I believe OSA offload can also be an approach that is a differentiator with Z. So might as well add that too? Unless Hipersockets is always superior, though I'm not sure that's the

Re: More words on The Virtualization Cookbook Redbook residency

2013-06-12 Thread David Boyes
Any more suggestions or comments of what else you'd like to see in this book? If it's not already there: 1) a section on setting up the CMS SSL server to provide secure management traffic transport. 2) a section on enabling SMAPI and the use of smaclient to manipulate the images.

Re: More words on The Virtualization Cookbook Redbook residency

2013-06-12 Thread David Boyes
Is there already zVM/zLinux documentation contrasting benefits/costs of Hipersockets vs shared OSA offload? I believe OSA offload can also be an approach that is a differentiator with Z. So might as well add that too? Unless Hipersockets is always superior, though I'm not sure that's the

Re: More words on The Virtualization Cookbook Redbook residency

2013-06-12 Thread Kurt Acker
generate interest by a larger audience. Kurt Acker IBM Smarter Planet, Smarter Data Centers Virtualization and Enterprise System Management Technologies From: David Boyes dbo...@sinenomine.net To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu, Date: 06/12/2013 10:39 AM Subject: Re: More words on The Virtualization Cookbook