I guess it mostly depends on how many people are available in the "groups" <G>.
Our Open Systems Group also supports Linux on some servers and on the desktop. But here, I support VM, VSE and Linux. Linux being closer to hardware and needs to be supervised in a shared environment. It seems that I also support the Linux middleware. Oracle, DB2/UDB, DB2 Connect, Samba, NFS, etc. Applications is supported by some other group and I push out the administration of those applications to others. For example, I'm the primary DBA for Oracle. I create the tablespaces, but I don't create the tables or load them. I do the backups and document how to do the restores. When a new "database" is being created or moved to me, I chuckle at the resource requests. I bring it up under a development Oracle system, and usually migrate it do an existing Oracle production image. The request usually is in standalone box terms. I need 4 GB main, and 1 TB for disk. What they end up using is 512 MB increase in SGA (perhaps), and perhaps 5 GB for table spaces. Perhaps a 5-10% increase in our single IFL usage. Right now, at 12:18 PM, ind shows 18% cpu usage on our z/890 IFL. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting >>> Ross Johnson <[email protected]> 3/23/2009 9:45 PM >>> This is also being cross posted to the Linux-390 group. In your organization, do you support the zLinux distribution as well as z/VM, or are there separate groups in place, one to support z/VM and one for zLinux? Thanks. Ross
