Re: zLINUX end user provisioning

2019-12-12 Thread Bill Head
o mount to a filesystem on your staging server. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Hamilton, Robert Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 11:11 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: zLINUX end user provisioning I'm interested in this too. I am follo

Re: zLINUX end user provisioning

2019-12-11 Thread Herald ten Dam
2f> I KvK 32135776 Van: Linux on 390 Port namens Mike Riggs Verzonden: woensdag 11 december 2019 20:59 Aan: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Onderwerp: Re: zLINUX end user provisioning Hey Bob, I'm going to chime in with support for zPRO as well. Although not (yet) in produc

Re: zLINUX end user provisioning

2019-12-11 Thread Mike Riggs
Vincent Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 2:33 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: zLINUX end user provisioning Hello Bob! It *was *a good tool-set and is long gone now unfortunately. Since it was written specifically for that environment even if I still had it, it probably would

Re: zLINUX end user provisioning

2019-12-11 Thread Christian Borntraeger
On 11.12.19 18:00, Alan Altmark wrote: > On Wednesday, 12/11/2019 at 04:18 GMT, "Hamilton, Robert" > wrote: >> I'm interested in this too. I am following the read-only root > documentation, >> which is starting to show its age a little (RedPaper redp4322 is good, > but >> copyright 2008), but

Re: zLINUX end user provisioning

2019-12-11 Thread Edgington, Jerry
ubject: Re: zLINUX end user provisioning Hello Bob! It *was *a good tool-set and is long gone now unfortunately. Since it was written specifically for that environment even if I still had it, it probably would not be of much use except for the concepts. Humbly I would say zPRO is the way to go bec

Re: zLINUX end user provisioning

2019-12-11 Thread James Vincent
neer > Chemical Abstracts Service > > > > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of James > Vincent > Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 12:37 PM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: [EXT] Re: zLINUX end user provisioning > > [Actual

Re: zLINUX end user provisioning

2019-12-11 Thread Hamilton, Robert
- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of James Vincent Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 12:37 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [EXT] Re: zLINUX end user provisioning [Actual Sender is owner-linux-...@vm.marist.edu] I did see the "no budget for buying" but I have a shameless pr

Re: zLINUX end user provisioning

2019-12-11 Thread Tom Huegel
In the past (z/VM 5.4) I setup XCAT to do LINUX provisioning .. it was a bit of a struggle to get it working but it was free and once I got it going it worked well enough for us. z/VM 6.4 is different .. I haven't done anything with it. On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 11:39 AM James Vincent wrote: > I

Re: zLINUX end user provisioning

2019-12-11 Thread James Vincent
I did see the "no budget for buying" but I have a shameless product plug. There is a very affordable, easy to use and vendor-supported product available called zPRO from Velocity Software that will clone (you get an exact copy), clone and personalize (exact copy with new network info, etc) or

Re: zLINUX end user provisioning

2019-12-11 Thread Tom Huegel
In the past (z/VM 5.4) I setup XCAT to do LINUX provisioning .. it was a bit of a struggle to get it working but it was free and once I got it going it worked well enough for us. z/VM 6.4 is different .. I haven't done anything with it. On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 11:04 AM Alan Altmark wrote: > On

Re: zLINUX end user provisioning

2019-12-11 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 12/11/2019 at 04:18 GMT, "Hamilton, Robert" wrote: > I'm interested in this too. I am following the read-only root documentation, > which is starting to show its age a little (RedPaper redp4322 is good, but > copyright 2008), but still has good stuff about gold instances,

Re: zLINUX end user provisioning

2019-12-11 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 12/11/2019 at 04:28 GMT, Jake Anderson wrote: > We have no budget in buying products to do this > > Is there a other way to get the cloning? I didn't say you had to buy something. I asked how you deploy new Linux servers on other platforms. This is about integrating Z into your

Re: zLINUX end user provisioning

2019-12-11 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Alan, Yes, OK, many shops prefer 'build' over 'clone'. Chapter 2 of http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg248303.html?Open shows how to use kickstart for RHEL. Our shop still does clones because we have to use golden images hardened by another team. -Mike M On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 11:19

Re: zLINUX end user provisioning

2019-12-11 Thread Michael MacIsaac
nt: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 10:24 AM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: [EXT] Re: zLINUX end user provisioning > > [Actual Sender is owner-linux-...@vm.marist.edu] > > Jake, > > Which cookbook are you using? > > -Mike M > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 10:

Re: zLINUX end user provisioning

2019-12-11 Thread Jake Anderson
Mike I am not worried about oracle but want to just clone a linux alone. As our DBAs are installing the oracle on Linux guest On Wed, 11 Dec, 2019, 8:20 PM Jake Anderson, wrote: > We have no budget in buying products to do this > > Is there a other way to get the cloning? > > On Wed, 11 Dec,

Re: zLINUX end user provisioning

2019-12-11 Thread Jake Anderson
We have no budget in buying products to do this Is there a other way to get the cloning? On Wed, 11 Dec, 2019, 8:19 PM Alan Altmark, wrote: > On Wednesday, 12/11/2019 at 03:31 GMT, Jake Anderson > wrote: > > We are a small shop non SSI and most of the Linux requirements are for > > Oracle. >

Re: zLINUX end user provisioning

2019-12-11 Thread Hamilton, Robert
Subject: [EXT] Re: zLINUX end user provisioning [Actual Sender is owner-linux-...@vm.marist.edu] Jake, Which cookbook are you using? -Mike M On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 10:20 AM Jake Anderson wrote: > Hello > > I am pretty new to zLINUX provisioning. > > I have used cookbook

Re: zLINUX end user provisioning

2019-12-11 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Jake, This redbook is old, but I'd hope most of it is still pertinent: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg248104.html?Open See Chapter 10 "Automating Oracle on System z" Hope this helps. -Mike On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 10:34 AM Jake Anderson wrote: > Hi Mike > > I am using > > The

Re: zLINUX end user provisioning

2019-12-11 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 12/11/2019 at 03:31 GMT, Jake Anderson wrote: > We are a small shop non SSI and most of the Linux requirements are for > Oracle. > > So which is the best way to do cloning alone ? How does your company deploy Linux and Oracle today (on other platforms)? Cloning isn't always the

Re: zLINUX end user provisioning

2019-12-11 Thread Jake Anderson
Hi Mike I am using The Virtualization Cookbook for IBM z Systems Volume 1: IBM z/VM 6.3, SG24-8147-01 I have built Linux and done with LVM part alone . We are a small shop non SSI and most of the Linux requirements are for Oracle. So which is the best way to do cloning alone ? Jake On Wed,

Re: zLINUX end user provisioning

2019-12-11 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Jake, Which cookbook are you using? -Mike M On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 10:20 AM Jake Anderson wrote: > Hello > > I am pretty new to zLINUX provisioning. > > I have used cookbook to build Linux and if functional. > > From the provisioning part untill which chapter of cookbook i can follow ? >

zLINUX end user provisioning

2019-12-11 Thread Jake Anderson
Hello I am pretty new to zLINUX provisioning. I have used cookbook to build Linux and if functional. >From the provisioning part untill which chapter of cookbook i can follow ? Generally untill which chapter will be followed to provision the Linux guest ? Jake