Re: VM on 8202-E4D

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was going to suggest you think about using an independent ASP for 
testing - but then you'd need another one for your production stuff, 
since you cant have the same library in both SYSBAS and an active IASP.

If you were able to move that way, however, you'd have no need for 
additional management - your existing setup would work.

Maybe for another time or for the archives!

Cheers
Vern

On 4/18/2017 11:31 AM, tim wrote:
> We are willing to have existing partition as host. Sharing resources 
> will be fine.
>
> Can you elaborate on the "virtual HMC" part? I think that would work.
>
>
> On 4/18/2017 11:36 AM, DrFranken wrote:
> > If you are willing for your existing partition to be the host, share 
> > its disk space, a tape drive (NOT library) and dvd as well as bridge 
> > a network adapter they you don't need an HMC.
> >
> > I am not sure what enhancements they are referring to.
> >
> > That said I am a strong supporter of having an HMC for many reasons. 
> > Remember the virtual HMC appliance can be had for significantly less 
> > cash than a physical unit and it would likely be perfect for your 
> > environment.
> >
> > Either way you still use Power VM and it must be licensed on your 
> > server.
> >
> >         - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis
> >
> > www.Frankeni.com
> > www.iDevCloud.com - Personal Development IBM i timeshare service.
> > www.iInTheCloud.com - Commercial IBM i Cloud Hosting.
> >
> > On 4/18/2017 11:18 AM, tim wrote:
> > > We are looking to create a virtual environment for testing purposes. We
> > > are on V7.1 and want to create a duplicate environment for testing. We
> > > will only need to use IBM OS, not Linux or AIX, etc.
> > >
> > > Our VAR said, "all the improvements have been made in PowerVM/HMC and
> > > not in PVM" , thus suggesting we need the HMC since all software
> > > enhancements have been made on the HMC side only.  I've did some
> > > searches on it and for what we want, it looks like i don't need an HMC.
> > >
> > > Can anyone clarify this?