>>> On 5/28/2013 at 04:00 PM, "Pesce, Andy" <andy.pe...@autozone.com> wrote: > Just a curiosity question: > Is anyone running Red Hat or SUSE natively in its own LPAR without having > z/VM? > I know that under z/VM you can run multiple LINUX images. It is also very > easy > to clone systems. However, just wondering if there are clients out there > that > only want to run one LINUX system. So, they are not spending the money to > get z/VM and installing it. Any response would be appreciated.
We have a number of customers that only run in LPAR mode, and some others that have both z/VM guests and LPAR systems. The LPAR-only customers are either very small, as you suggest, or very, very large and don't want to incur even the minor overhead z/VM introduces. But, don't limit yourself to only one LPAR, if you can avoid it. Your software subscription costs won't increase, and you have the option to set up a highly available environment. The only resource you won't be able to share is real storage, so hopefully you're not too tight on that. 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
