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We're having a long running over a beer discussion about how best to
configure one of our applications.  During our last drinking session,
er, debate, we thought it might be interesting to post here and see
what, if any, consensus there is.

In brief: when load balancing client network connections across
multiple instances of an application, is it better to run multiple
separate 1 virtual IFL linux guests, each with a separate copy of the
application, or a single, large N virtual IFL linux guest with several
copies of the application running inside it?

Assumption: you have enough real IFL's to back the number of virtual
IFL's you'd assign.

Our real situation which gave rise to this question:  We're running
the tivoli monitoring suite of products on our z system in linux
guests.  As per IBM's documented recommendation, we're running one
TEMS process for each apx 500 client systems we monitor.  Currently,
we have this configured as a number of separate linux guests, each
running it's own copy of TEMS.

With expansion we have budgeted for next year, though, we'll have
enough real IFL's to consider consolidating all these TEMS proceses
into a single, multi-virtual-ifl linux guess.

We're not sure if there would be any cp scheduling benefits to either
configuration, or any resource benefits (e.g. storage usage, or paging).

Help support our fluid fueled debates !  What're the group's thoughts,
please?

Thanks!
- -- Pat
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