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Chapter 2. Practical planning
You must do some practical planning before starting a FLEX-ES installation. We can divide
the planning into several areas:
General topics that are relevant to any FLEX-ES installation:
– Your goal: A production or sandbox system?
– The Linux distribution to be used
– Newer hardware and Linux support
– Disk space needed
– Linux file system layout
– Mode of disk usage for emulated S/390 disk volumes
– Network connections
Topics that are especially relevant to ThinkPad installations:
– Device planning (Ultrabay™ usage)
– Choices for disk layouts
– Dual boot, alternate boot
Topics that are especially relevant for larger server installations:
– SMP kernels, large memory, and new LAN devices
– BIOS and RAID adapter updates
– RAID configuration
– External hardware (SCSI tapes, channels, and so forth)
These topics interact with each other. We strongly suggest you read all the discussion in this
chapter rather than reading only isolated topics. The discussions here (and throughout this
document) assume that you use FLEX-ES Release 6.2.14 or later.
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