On 4 Sep 2012 08:12:48 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >>>> On 9/3/2012 at 05:05 PM, Richard Hintz <[email protected]> wrote: >> Do you have something or can point me to something that shows comparative >> metrics for these, especially: >> --power/cooling >> --floor space >> --people >> --networking hardware (I really don't understand this, since I would have >> thought the networking hardware would be external to the device) > >Yes, it is, and in the case of System z, there is far less needed to support a >large number of Linux guests than if running discreet systems, or even >virtualized ones on Intel/AMD.
Why would running on system z require fewer guests than running in a virtual machine environment on another platform? Does i-o on system z take less cpu and memory resource than i-o on Intel servers?, p servers? Clark Morris > >> --DR >> --provisioning >> --retirement (not tracking on this, too. See places still running IMS, for >> example) > >All of the ones I have at my fingertips are rather old. The comparisons have >only become more favorable to Linux on System z over the years, so they're >still worth looking at. The first one is a presentation I did at SHARE, IBM >zExpo, and WAVV a number of times. > >Mark Post Choose the Wrong Architecture and Waste Millions - A Customer >Case Study >ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/eserver/zseries/zos/vse/pdf3/techconf2007/sanantonio/L76_Choose_the_Wrong_Architecture_and_Waste_Millions_A_Customer_Case_Study.pdf > >Romney White >Erich Amrehn (Dis)Honest TCO Analysis for Linux on System z >http://www.share.org/p/do/sd/sid=1569&fid=1568&req=direct > >Marlin Maddy TCO: Comparing System z and Distributed Environments; Building >the Business Case >http://www.share.org/p/do/sd/sid=5573&fid=5572&req=direct > >Lee Stewart z/VM and Linux Disaster Recovery - A Customer Experience >http://www.share.org/p/do/sd/sid=3203&fid=3202&req=direct > > >Mark Post > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
