You can allocate memory with a default of 2gb but keep 6gb in standby (using the define storage cp command). This way you can allocate more memory dynamically to guests based on alerts or just by someone asking for more. Most importantly this can be done without restarting your Linux.
Hope this helps. Offer Baruch On Apr 6, 2016 5:43 PM, "Levy, Alan" <al...@doitt.nyc.gov> wrote: > Hopefully someone can resolve an argument that I'm having with a colleague. > > We are competing with the distributed side which using VMware to create > sles linux servers. They create servers with 8G of memory and 8G of swap > for EVERY server. My colleague wants to follow this architecture for our > zvm servers (giving them 8G of memory and 8G of vdisk). > > My opinion is to give them a default of 2G of memory and 2G of vdisk and > increase the main memory as needed. > > My colleague is concerned that if we give them less, they will always go > to the distributed side since they give more. I am concerned about giving > so much memory might negatively impact our zvm systems. > > > > > ________________________________ > > This e-mail, including any attachments, may be confidential, privileged or > otherwise legally protected. It is intended only for the addressee. If you > received this e-mail in error or from someone who was not authorized to > send it to you, do not disseminate, copy or otherwise use this e-mail or > its attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by replying to this > e-mail and delete the e-mail from your system. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
