Re: Using solid state drives with Linux guests

2016-02-06 Thread Phil Tully
We use DS8870 ssd drives for z/VM paging. I have used them successfully as Linux boot volumes and also use them for r/o shared WAS binary volumes all eckd. No issues here. Phil Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 5, 2016, at 12:01 PM, Martha McConaghy wrote: > > Has anyone had experience using solid

Re: Using solid state drives with Linux guests

2016-02-05 Thread Kurt Acker
t, Smarter Data Centers Virtualization and Enterprise System Management Technologies From: Martha McConaghy To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 02/05/2016 12:10 PM Subject: Using solid state drives with Linux guests Sent by:Linux on 390 Port Has anyone had experience u

Using solid state drives with Linux guests

2016-02-05 Thread Martha McConaghy
Has anyone had experience using solid state drives (SSD) with a zLinux guest running under z/VM 6.3? We recently got a DS8870 that has quite a few SSDs. However, I haven't done anything with them yet. I would guess that I just configure arrays on them like normal disks, make them FB, create a LUN