This is great news! Thanks so much for the update! -Matt --
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 2:15 PM, John Falkenthal <John.Falkenthal at sun.com>wrote: > On 02/10/09 06:36, Matt Walburn wrote: > >> LDOMs Team, >> >> Just out of curiosity... are you able to say whether or not dynamic >> resource sharing is anywhere on the roadmap? I keep trying to duke it out >> with my AIX/PowerVM friends here at work, and they do have an advantage >> here! >> > Hi Matt. > > We have a project underway for LDoms 1.2 called "Dynamic Resource > Management"; this will enhance LDoms to automatically move virtual CPU > resources between guests as utilizations reach user-defined thresholds. In > later releases, this capability can and will be expanded to include dynamic > resource management of memory, and potentially even IO. > >> >> Do you think we'll get to the point where we can set minimum CPU/memory >> allocations, but let the domains use more than that if it's available. Kind >> of like FSS at the hypervisor level... but for memory too? >> > Yes, I think this first release in LDoms 1.2 will satisfy that use-case for > CPU. It leverages our existing ability to dynamically reassign virtual CPU > resources between guests - this just adds the automation and utilization > threshold setting characteristics. > > JF > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ldoms-discuss/attachments/20090212/bb974c31/attachment.html>
