Much depends on the nature of your instances and how many you have. See http://www.linuxcare.com
or give Brad Schwarz a call at 415-354-4535 "God is a comedian playing to an audience afraid to laugh." - Voltaire Gordon Wolfe, Ph. D. (425)865-5940 VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company > ---------- > From: Frank DeGilio > Reply To: Linux on 390 Port > Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 1:07 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Anyone tried Levanta > > Hmm - I am working with a customer who is looking to create server > instances on the fly based on some off platform criteria. Is there a good > Programmable interface to this stuff? Would it be worth the money? Would > I be better off just using REXX execs and service machines? > > Frank J. De Gilio > Complex Solution Architect > IBM Design Centers for e-business on Demand > > > > |---------+----------------------------> > | | "Wolfe, Gordon W"| > | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]| > | | oeing.com> | > | | Sent by: Linux on| > | | 390 Port | > | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]| > | | IST.EDU> | > | | | > | | | > | | 09/10/2003 03:36 | > | | PM | > | | Please respond to| > | | Linux on 390 Port| > |---------+----------------------------> > > >-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| > | > | > | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | > | cc: > | > | Subject: Re: Anyone tried Levanta > | > > >-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| > > > > > We have had Levanta Rel. 1 in on a trial. It's pretty impressive, although > it had a few shortcomings, especially in the user interface. It would have > been good for a few dozen small servers, but I wouldn't have wanted to use > it for hundreds of servers or large Oracle databases. > > We're getting Levanta Rel. 2 in for a trial this month. It's supposedly a > complete rewrite of the product and is reported to address many of our > concerns with Rel. 1. I'll let you know after I've had a bit of time to > play with it. > > My management's biggest concern is the cost of the product. It's more > expensive than z/VM itself. It's really going to have to justify itself in > terms of saved labor costs. There is a lot of labor involved in setting up > Levanta to manage Linux servers, but that labor is supposedly recovered in > spades in the ease of creating new servers and applying service. We shall > see. > > "God is a comedian playing to an audience afraid to laugh." - Voltaire > Gordon Wolfe, Ph. D. (425)865-5940 > VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company > > > ---------- > > From: Gene Walters > > Reply To: Linux on 390 Port > > Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 10:56 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Anyone tried Levanta > > > > Hi, > > > > Has anyone on the list tried Levanta? If so, what do you think of it? > > > > thanks > > Gene > > > > > >
