What are you doing March 1st - 6th? Start by going to SHARE in Austin TX. Go to http://www.share.org/Events/UpcomingConference/tabid/349/Default.aspx and look at the zVM and zLinux sessions. Tell the Boss that he will get a get return on his investment of sending you to SHARE.
Also look at http://www.linuxvm.org at a resource. Good luck, you are making a good move. James Chaplin Systems Programmer, MVS, zVM & zLinux Base Technologies, Inc Supporting the zSeries Platform Team Data Center Operations Branch Enterprise Data Center Operations Group Enterprise Data Management & Engineering Division Office of Information and Technology Department of Homeland Security/U.S. Customs & Border Protection (703) 921-6220 james.chap...@cbp.dhs.gov -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Erling Ringen Elvsrud Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 7:04 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Advice on zLinux for a systems-administrator from the x86 world Hello list, I work as a Linux systems administrator. Currently we have about 200 virtual (vmWare) and 40 physical linux servers. Most of these servers are used for WAS (Websphere appserver), a few for WPS (Websphere process server), and a few for other uses. My employer is condidering zLinux (on a z10 BC mainframe). I have no experience with mainframe, z/VM or zLinux. Can you describe how you use zLinux? What kind of software do you run on zLinux? how many zLinux instances per IFL, how much memory? What kind of workloads do you think realizes most economic benefits on zLinux? If you are familiar with other virtualization alternatives, can you compare zLinux on zVM with them? (for instance cost, performance, simplicity of administration, etc). Thanks, Erling ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
