On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 07:43:14 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
>Anyone have any idea how successful it has been? Is it catching on as a
>general Linux server, or does the Linux community view it as some weird
>mainframey thing?
>
>The answer matters to the MVS community because if IBM can sell a warehouse
>full of them it will support further mainframe hardware development, which
>must currently seem to IBM to be a small niche market.
>
Well, here's a non-IBM article. I dont know how objective:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/linuxone-ibms-new-linux-mainframes/
So the Rockhopper is built on a z12 and Emperor on a z13. But:
... The z13 mainframe series can hold up to 10 TBs of memory.
Its 8-core z13 CPU can run up to 5GHz. ...
8-core seems small. Are they only IFLs? Uncapped?
Elsewhere I read it can use either KVM or zVM as a hypervisor.
Some months ago, I asked on IBMVM whether a z/VM system
with only Linux guests could be CMS-free, using Linux for
administrative chores and sparing administrators the need to
learl another OS. The answers distilled to: "You wouldn't
want to do that; you't forgo all the utilities coded for CMS."
I'm not sure that's unbiased.
-- gil
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