On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Ted MacNEIL <[email protected]> wrote:
> >The "1500" number is made up, but is in the ballpark for a biggish z10. > > How do you know it's made up? > I have no idea regarding this size, but I cannot dismiss it, either. > > I always suspect blanket statements like that one. > I know it's made up because (a) it's a very round number and (b) nobody is running that much Linux on ONE z box anywhere, or if they are, they aren't talking about it. This stuff isn't top secret: there are lots of sites (Nationwide, Wells Fargo, and a few others come to mind) who are doing lots of Linux on z. IBM is (or at least was, a year or two ago) driving to 1,000 Linux guests on a single box for testing purposes. Once you get over some reasonable number of guests, it makes more sense to add another box simply so you have more failover, etc. options, so again, while 1500 is reasonable, it may never be realized -- 3x500 might be more likely. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
