[Discuss] RHEL on intel/Xeon, vs. RHEL on Mainframe Z Linux

2014-03-19 Thread Jim Gasek
BLU Discuss folks: I have an application that I administer on RHEL 5.5. I will be moving to 6.x, hopefully soon. It has been suggested that I consider moving it to the mainframe, via RHEL for mainframe: http://www.redhat.com/products/enterprise-linux/for-ibm-system-z/ What are the

Re: [Discuss] RHEL on intel/Xeon, vs. RHEL on Mainframe Z Linux

2014-03-19 Thread Jerry Feldman
You will not have any binary compatibility between Intel and zLinux on is non-existent. Are you going to run Linux native or in a virtual environment. AFIK, the IFL facility uses native code, not Intel. But, you have a lot of performance and flexibility as you can run up to 1000 VMs. Unfortunately

Re: [Discuss] RHEL on intel/Xeon, vs. RHEL on Mainframe Z Linux

2014-03-19 Thread Peter (peabo) Olson
On March 19, 2014 at 12:57 PM Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: can inquire. remember that IBM has had virtualization on its mainframes going back to the 1960s, and have some firmware support. CP-67 sigh :-) peabo ___ Discuss mailing list