Re: Guest Partitions

[Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rephrase that, adding disk via network storage space commands.

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I am sure others will chime in.  HMC to setup the partitions.  I have a
> host with several guest partitions.  The tape drive is shared between
> partitions, the dvd is shared between all as well.  Disk drives are owned by
> the hosting partition, one of the drawbacks is adding disk space via the
> image catalog command so I would try and make sure you know for the most
> part how much disk storage you would want on the host and clients.  The
> guest can IPL and have nill effect on the host, when the host is down so are
> the clients.
>
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Jerry C. Adams <midrange@xxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> > I have a BP coming in next week to give us a proposal for a Power 7
> > system.
> > One of the questions that came up, when we were talking about our
> > needs/wants was partitioning so that, unlike today on our V5R1 machine, I
> > could have a test environment separate from production.
> >
> >
> >
> > This morning remembered some mention of a guest partition capability when
> > 6.1 was announced.  I read some links that Rob provided but, admittedly,
> > I'm
> > still just a tad confused or unsatisfied.  That is, the 6.1 technical
> > overview showed how to set up a client partition, but not how to use it
> >
> >
> >
> > In a previous incarnation I had access to two [2] physical machines; one
> > for
> > production and one for development/testing.  In 7.1 can/does this guest
> > (client) partition insulate the host partition (what would be in my case
> > Production) from updates made in the client?  In the 2-box scenario I
> > ftped
> > libraries back and forth between the boxes; would that be the same
> > methodology for the client partition scenario?  And when the client
> > partition is ended (the Redbook didn't go into whether this could be done
> > or
> > how, but I figured it could be), do the libraries/objects in the client
> > just
> > disappear automagically?
> >
> >
> >
> > Except for migrating objects between host and client, and using IBM i and
> > disk space, I don't anticipate sharing resources.  That is, such things as
> > the tape drive, DVD drive, etc.  But what the heck do I know.  Anyway, I
> > just want to be able to set up a test environment that shields production
> > from my tests.
> >
> >
> >
> > Jerry C. Adams
> >
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