> >Are there any other datacenters out there with charging systems in place?
Getting close - www.teliaconnect.com are working on it. I think others (IBM) are working on it too. >We're sort of stumped with the pricing scheme until we can figure out how >much we can realistically expect to handle with the resources we currently >have. Don't want to give away the farm but don't want to price ourselves >out of competition either. Matt, you're probably asking the one question no-one will be willing to help with. If anything, your question is the crux of any bid for server consolidation on z/VM - any hardware. FYI, I've been running ecperf (a J2EE benchmark) on WebLogic on Linux/390 to try to achieve what you're asking for. So - compare what sort of throughput/performance you get for something running on eg. a typical 1U server (any make) with the throughput/performance you get when running the same 'something' on your Linux/390 box. In my case, running ecperf was the right thing, in our case, maybe repeated kernel compiles - I don't know. I think this is very likely to become a highly competitive market, and whoever gets it right, well .... regards, Per Jessen, Zurich http://www.enidan.com - home of the J1 serial console. Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
