I had a Technology guru test running SQUID under Linux under z/VM and he used most of our z890 IFL.
And almost any Oracle application programmer can write a bad query that will get Oracle to eat an IFL. With better application choices, tens, hundreds of Linux images can run nicely on an IFL under z/VM. But if your customers only want to run a handful of Linux images and can accept the LPAR management (cannot quite define a new LPAR as fast as defining a new virtual machine), then LPARs are my recommendation. /Tom Kern On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT, Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>One of the datacenters is using Linux under IFL. 2-4 images. Is it really cost effective to buy z/VM for this poor z/800 machine ? Is it really needed at all ? > >I think it is. > >4 images isn't worth $125,000 USD for an IFL. >I don't think you can drive the IFL very high with just that few. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
