action #32011
closed[sles][functional][s390x][fast] Adapt openQA to use temporary z/VM guests after breakdown of our Mainframe storage system
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Description
User story¶
With the breakdown of our storage backend (DS8100) for s390x, we've lost all z/VM guests which were running on z/VM 5.4
right now it's not clear yet if the DS8100 will become functional again, since the machine is already out of support
For now we've installed a z/VM 6.3 on the new storage backend (DS8870) as temporary solution.
Thanks to the help of the Mainframe-Admin team, we were able to get (for now) 5 guests installed and running in this new environment
Since those guests are now running on z/VM 6.3, which has significant changes compared to 5.4, we need to adapt openQA for this
For now, I'm aware of changes in following areas:
- DONE MANDATORY: Adapted workerconf to match the settings for the new guests -> merge request
- DONE MANDATORY: Adapted bootloader_s390.pm to handle the differences in the x3270 terminal -> pull request
- DONE MANDATORY: Adapted openQA Machine definitions -> added machine s390x-zVM-temp
- DONE RECOMMENDED: New needles for faster delivery on this task -> merge request and see poo#32008 for improvements later on
DONE MANDATORY: Updated Documentation in the wiki -> updated
REJECTED MAYBE NECESSARY: Backend changes in terms of connecting to the SUT -> not necessary
REJECTED MAYBE NECESSARY: Set up local DNS resolving for the guests on the worker -> not necessary