That's a totally it depends answer or YMMV. I have 100 test/dev servers on a 2 engine z9 EC. If I extrapolated that out I could have 2700 of them on 1 54 way (max # of z9 engines in a box today).. Cool. I could take IBM's 4000 and put on 2 mainframes boxes and have a some room for growth even !
Now... I also have 17 IFL engines in production - that runs about 45 servers.... Obvioulsy production works drastically different from test! I'd need a lot more boxes to run 4000 of these type! Marcy Cortes "This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation." -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lindy Mayfield Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 3:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] FW: IBM saves $250 million consolidating Linux servers on to mainframes | NetworkWorld.com Community Just curious, because I don't know how the hardware works, if 30 mainframes do the work of 3,900 servers, that means 1 mainframe does 130. Does that mean that potentially that 1 mainframe has the equivalent of at least 130 network cards? I can see how most of the hardware is virtualized, but the networking I don't quite see, yet. How does that part work? Lindy -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kelman, Tom Sent: 1. elokuuta 2007 20:49 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: FW: IBM saves $250 million consolidating Linux servers on to mainframes | NetworkWorld.com Community This story is popping up all over the net. Money Magazine http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0284973.htm PC World - no less http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,135331-c,servers/article.html Tom Kelman Commerce Bank of Kansas City (816) 760-7632 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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