>>> On 1/21/2009 at 2:31 PM, David Boyes <[email protected]> wrote: -snip- > If I haven't said it before, I don't think there's much reason to ever > consider LPAR deployment of Linux, but others do disagree with that view. > I'm sure there are workloads where it would matter, but I still think the > manageability loss dramatically overwhelms any cost advantage from omitting > VM.
When I first joined Novell, I was surprised to learn that the world's largest implementation was done all in LPARs. From what I was told, that wasn't because of the dollar cost of z/VM, but the overhead. Given the number of processors running, I could (somewhat) understand that, but to me that says that "people time is free" is the attitude, and that leads to another whole set of problems. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
