Thanks.
The raw PCI numbers on the charts and graphs suggest a 3-fold performance
increase over a z10 BC. However with onboard JIT optimization and hardware
multithreading, the z13 could show a 10x improvement with Java workloads.
Ray Mrohs
-Original Message-
From: Linux on 390 Port
Has anyone had experience using solid state drives (SSD) with a zLinux guest
running under z/VM 6.3? We recently got a DS8870 that has quite a few SSDs.
However, I haven't done anything with them yet. I would guess that I just
configure arrays on them like normal disks, make them FB, create a
David Simpson presented this material at last years Oracle SIG conference:
http://www.oraclezsig.org/2015presentations/THU_1045_2015_Simpson_IO_V3.pdf
- That event will be held on April 26 and 27th this year:
http://www.oraclezsig.org/
Bill Bitner has also presented on its very positive
Please refer to
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/whatsnew.html
for several updates to the 'Development stream':
* description of upstream kernel 4.3 features that were
contributed by Linux on z Systems development
* kernel 4.3 patch for kernel message catalog
* s390-tools
