I haven't gotten a response, but I've been doing more research, and I've managed to come up with more questions. First off, I know what an LPAR is, but what benefits are provided by VM that make it preferable over LPAR's? I would guess that VM can share resources more efficiently, but from what I'm reading, LPAR's are supposed to be able to dynamically share resources as well? I'm sure there must be a clear and obvious reason that I'm missing, but I haven't found it. Also, is there a definite limit to how many LPAR's a given machine can run?
Secondly, if I couldn't get VM with the mainframe (which is looking pretty likely), would it be better to run separate LPAR's of linux, a single LPAR of linux with linux-vserver (http://linux-vserver.org/), or a combination of both? If you haven't heard of linux-vserver (I didn't until recently), it's an OS level virtualization system for linux that basically lets a single kernel run multiple isolated userspaces. The developers say it only adds a 1% to 2% performance overhead, so it looks like a good solution to me. Andrew ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
