You can always give them what they want, and then show them what they really need. - Any good performance tool will help make that easier.
Then work with them to understand possible growth requirements. - That may help balance using tools like CMM as mentioned over manual intervention. If your talking WAS guest, look into exploiting shared binaries as a means to help standardize and simplify the administration as that can lead better platform acceptance too. Kurt On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 10:41 AM, 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/ > -- ><((((º>`·.¸¸´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·...¸>(((º> .·´¯`·.><((((º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·...¸><((((º> <>< Go fishing ><> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
