What are the recommended service machine virtual storage sizes for VM:Manager products?

Products

• Mainframe VM Product Manager
• VM:Manager Suite for Linux on Mainframe
• VM:Manager Suite for z/VM
• VM SUITE

Issue/Introduction

Due to product and system changes, we have updated our recommended minimum virtual storage sizes for the service virtual machines associated with the products.

 

 

 

Resolution

Below is a list by product and the user IDs that are used with that product.  

VM:Account

VMACCT   -  32M

VMJSYSAD -  16M

DISKACNT -  16M

VMJDASD  -  16M

 

VM:Archiver

VMARCH   -  64M

VMASYSAD -   8M

 

VM:Backup

VMBACKUP - 128M

 

HiDRO

HIDRO    - 128M

SYBCOM   -  32M

SYBMOM   -  32M

 

VM:Batch 

VMBATCH  -   5M

VMHSYSAD -   4M

VM:Batch Workers -   4M (Dependent on site usage)

 

VM:Director

VMDIRECT -  128M

 

VM:Operator

OPERATOR -  32M

 

VM:Schedule

VMSCHED  -   4M

 

 

VM:Secure

VMSECURE - 128M

 

VM:Spool

VMSPOOL  -  16M

VMLWORK  -  16M

VMLBAKnn -  32M

VMLRESnn -  32M

 

VM:Tape   

VMTAPE   -  16M

VMTLIBR  -   8M

Additional Information

The storage requirements are also documented in PDC QI32411.   Maximum storage sizes are up to the user, but we recommend you make the size large enough to give room for system growth,