On 8/19/2019 7:40 AM, Matt Hogstrom wrote:
Lots of possibilities for what one can do. Something to bear in mind its a “virtualized” guest so I/O performance will be less than native zLinux performance. I haven’t seen any good data on the actual differences in performance but that would be interesting.
Linux on Z typically runs under z/VM which virtualizes guests using an extremely high-performing IBM Z hardware virtualization feature called START INTERPRETIVE EXECUTION (or SIE). This hardware feature results in extremely low (but of course not zero) performance degradation when compared to native LPAR.
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