RE: Spec for New V7R1 Development Machine/Remotely Racked

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

I would put the HMC on a KVM with remote capability.  Remote access to the 
HMC rocks with V7 of HMC!  However, when you create a shared 5250 session 
it is best to start it on the HMC and then share it.  Otherwise if you do 
the following:
- start a shared session remotely
- start an OS installation
- lose connection
You abort install.

But if you
- Start shared 5250 session on hmc
- Share it remotely
- start an OS install
- lose connection
- reconnect
- install is still running fine.

I learned this the hard way doing a remote OS install while at COMMON 
Directions in Dallas.  Remember lads?

I have multiple guested partitions underneath one host partition. Hardware 
wise, it is the way to go to save money.


Rob Berendt