z/VM and Linux on IBM System z: The Virtualization Cookbook for z/VM 6.2 RHEL 6.2 and SLES 11 SP2 A “cookbook” for installing and customizing z/VM 6.2, RHEL 6.2 and SLES 11 SP2 on the mainframe Michael MacIsaac Brad Hinson Marian Gasparovic . Contents Preface . xi Parts of this book . xi Summary of changes in the July 2012 version . xi Summary of changes in the January 2012 version . xii Conventions . xiii Operating system releases used . xiii The team that wrote this book . xiii Special thanks . xiii Comments welcome. xiv Part 1. Introduction and z/VM . 1 Chapter 1. Introduction to z/VM and Linux . 1 1.1 What is virtualization? . 3 1.2 A philosophy adopted in this book . 4 1.3 Choices and decisions made in this book . 4 1.4 Single System Image design. 4 1.5 Infrastructure design . 5 1.6 Usability tests performed. 6 Chapter 2. Planning . 7 2.1 Planning for an SSI and LGR . 7 2.1.1 Hints and Tips . 7 2.1.2 Need for ECKD DASD . 9 2.2 Bill of materials . 9 2.2.1 Hardware resources . 9 2.2.2 Software resources . 9 2.2.3 Networking resources . 10 2.3 z/VM conventions . 10 2.3.1 Volume labeling convention . 10 2.3.2 Backup file naming convention . 11 2.3.3 The command retrieve convention . 11 2.4 Disk planning. 12 2.5 Memory planning. 13 2.6 Password planning . 13 2.7 Planning worksheets . 14 2.7.1 z/VM resources used in this book . 14 2.7.2 z/VM DASD used in this book. 16 2.7.3 Linux resources used in this book. 17 2.7.4 Host names used in this book. 18 2.8 Blank planning worksheets . 18 2.8.1 SSI block diagram. 19 2.8.2 z/VM resources worksheet . 19 2.8.3 z/VM DASD worksheet . 21 2.8.4 Linux resources worksheet . 22 2.8.5 Host names worksheet . 23 Contents iii Chapter 3. Configure a desktop machine . 25 3.1 Windows desktops . 25 3.1.1 PuTTY: a free SSH client for Windows . 25 3.1.2 Set up a VNC client. 29 3.1.3 3270 emulators . 30 3.2 Linux desktops . 31 Chapter 4. Configure an NFS/FTP server . 33 4.1 Install Linux on a distributed server. 33 4.2 Download files associated with this book . 34 4.3 Set up a RHEL 6.2 install tree. 34 4.3.1 Copy from physical DVD. 35 4.3.2 Verify the RHEL 6.2 ISO image . 35 4.3.3 Mount the RHEL 6.2 ISO image . 36 4.4 Set up a SLES 11 SP2 install tree . 37 4.4.1 SLES 11 SP2 DVD ISO image file . 37 4.4.2 Start from physical DVD . 37 4.4.3 Verifying the ISO images . 38 4.4.4 Configure the SLES 11 SP2 install server . 38 4.5 Enable the NFS server . 39 4.6 Configure an FTP server. 40 Chapter 5. Install a z/VM SSI cluster . 41 5.1 Obtain z/VM through electronic download . 42 5.2 Configure an FTP server for z/VM installation . 44 5.2.1 Prepare the z/VM product install files . 44 5.2.2 Install and configuring the FTP server . 45 5.2.3 Test the anonymous FTP server. 46 5.3 Install z/VM from DVD or FTP server . 46 5.3.1 Start the z/VM install . ..