You could play it politically safe and start with the same sort of ratio that your organization's Windows Virtualization people are using (http://communities.vmware.com/thread/128660?tstart=30). Then when you see that your processors are not fully utilized and you still have paging capacity, you can add more guests while the Windows group needs to ask fo r more hardware.
/Tom Kern On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:20:19 -0500, Harris, Nick J. <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: >Hello All, > >Is there a golden rule about the number of IFLs to support production >Linux guests? I understand all shops are different and 'it depends' >applies...but we are curious as to the ratio of IFLs to Linux guest in >other shops. > >Are there any shops out there running zLinux guests in production under >z/VM with two or less IFLs besides us? > >We have four production Linux guests and twenty one test Linux guests >supported by two IFLs on a z9BC. >
