>>> On 12/3/2008 at 7:58 AM, "Harder, Pieter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark, > > Is your picture from the Orlando presentation still valid when > virtualization is factored in? The discrete system view factors in massive > underutilization to be able to run on so few IFLs. The general thinking in my > company is that VMware is a lot simpler route to attack that.
That's because that's what the actual utilization on those servers was. Even so, according to my IBM contact that did the sizing, the cost of a VMware implementation would have been about midway between the cost of the discrete systems and Linux on System z. So, yes, it's still valid, just not as dramatically so. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
