And you should definately join the IBMVM and Linux-390 lists. http://listserv.uark.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=ibmvm http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-VM
/Tom Kern On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:35:25 -0500, Tom Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:16:28 -0500, Hal Merritt wrote: >>There are guesstimates of perhaps 3 or 4 hundred Linux images. >>In addition, there are audit pressures to put each application instance >>on its own server. > >Okay there's your problem: You CANNOT have anywhere near 3 or 4 HUNDRED >LPARs on any given single box. You need to virtualize your proposal. > >You need to be thinking z/VM. While the "server" in that case would be >virtual it should be "real enough" to pass any audit. (It can pass a DoD >government audit, as a recent example indicates.) > >z/VM doesn't have issues with multiple Linux instances and it can scale up >(or down) very quickly. Ideal for what you seem to be looking at. >You only need one (or perhaps two, for a test z/VM) LPARs to get the >concept up off of the ground and running smoothly. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
