VM2000 components not backed up

The following components of the VM2000 configuration are not backed up:

• Passwords of $VMCONS

• MONJVs

• VM definitions

• Persistent VMs

• Monitor VM:

  • The multiprocessor level, main memory sizes and password of the monitor VM are backed up, but they are not included when restoration takes place.

  • Trace level

• Configuration states of the VMs

  The AUTO-START=*YES attribute is only backed up for a VM whose guest system was started with a KVP pair as main console and using INFORMATION-BYTE=*FAST/*AUTOMATIC. An automatic restart of the guest system is possible for such a VM after the VM2000 configuration has been restored.

• The following applies for device configuration:

  • The device assignments to a pubset are not part of the VM2000 configuration.
    In other words, when the pubset structure or the device attributes change after the backup, the devices concerned do not receive the current assignments and attributes for the pubset when restoration takes place, but those which were saved for the devices when the backup was performed.

  • The assignments to VMs and the assignment to an assignment set are backed up for each device.
    If a device does not belong to the current configuration when restoration takes place, these assignments cannot be restored.