On Friday, 03/03/2006 at 08:40 PST, Barton Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of the most critical issues with Linux on "z" is the > overhead of the infrastructure. If you plan on running a hundred > linux servers, multiple the cost of the agents required by the > infrastructure times 100 and then ask if this is a workable > solution.
Some good news here: The emerging DMTF-based open CIM standards recognize that there are hypervisors and that hypervisors are capable of reporting performance and configuration information about the resident guests. (And as these standards are published, Director will start exploiting them.) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
