>>> On 1/30/2010 at 01:19 PM, Walter Wojcik <wal...@abinitio.com> wrote: > I have an LPAR with 2 dedicated IFL processors. I would like to run 3 > instances of zLinux. > > I would like to have the following environment > > zVM 5.4 > / | \ > / | \ > / | \ > / | \ > / | \ > zVM zVM zVM > 5.3 5.4 5.4 > Build Test Sandbox > no cap cap cap > 25% of 10% of > 1 IFL 1 IFL
You can do this, but I think you'll find that running Linux third-level will result in excruciatingly bad performance. I think you would be better off creating 2 LPARs, one running z/VM 5,3 and the other z/VM 5.4, sharing the IFLs between them, and using both LPAR weights and CP SHAREs to balance things out the way you want. You don't say what model of System z you're running, so I don't know if the additional overhead of running 2 z/VM instances will take up too much of your capacity or not. I would suspect that the additional people time z/VM systems management would be more significant than hardware resources, however. > If this is possible could you direct me to the correct documention to > accomplish my goals? Do you mean z/VM documentation, or Linux? Depending on the Linux distribution(s) you want to install, you could take a look at the Virtualization Cookbooks that Mike MacIsaac et. al. have on the IBM Redbooks web site: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/cgi-bin/searchsite.cgi?query=virtualization+AND+cookbook There's one for SLES9, SLES10 SP2 (SP3 should not be any different), RHEL4, and RHEL5.2. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
