Thanks, Jim. I will give it a look as soon as I have compiled the other numbers they want. This is more clerical than capacity planning.
Regards, Richard Schuh > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Elliott > Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 11:25 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: CPU Power > > > We have some questions about MIPS consumed by VM and Linux from > >`management. They want numbers based on the cost of the MP > effect by > >operating system, expecting different numbers for VM than > for Linux (I > >haven't yet said anything about considering real MP effect > for VM and > >virtual MP effect for guests having more than 1 virtual > cpu). Is there > >any acceptable way to convert CPU Model and number of engines into > >MIPS? For example, our main VM system, one that has no > Linux guests, > >runs in a 7-cpu LPAR on a 2094-507, while there are two > LPARS on the > >same CEC, sharing 3 IFLs, running Linux under VM. > > Richard: Have you look at the zPCR tool? It will allow you to > define some multi-image (i.e. more than one LPAR configs) for > z/VM Linux workloads. > > http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/PRS1381 > > Jim >
