Tore, "z" does lots and lots of little things really well, and is
designed to support high resource utilization. Any software or hardware
that is used 2% (or even 10%) of the time is a huge cost for
underutilized resource. Measuring your "x" servers and showing
utilizations is the first step. Any servers that are running
applications easily ported to linux on z that are using small amounts of
CPU are easy. This is probably 80% of your "x" servers. Pick the low
lying fruit (american saying i guess?).
If management is convinced by dollars/Euros/Krona savings, then that is
the best approach. Come up with a REAL TCO spreadsheet with valid costs
that include environmentals, people, software and hardware. If
management is more motivated by religion (P vs X vs Z vs Unix), then
focus on RAS and Openness of Linux.
Agblad Tore wrote:
Hi.
I have a small job to do here, creating a list of what type of Linux
load/services/apps is best fit
to run on z, compared to x86.
And it suddenly strucked me, this list contains lot's of persons that can
answer this question.
Also what did you find most easy to convince management to use it for.
What was most successful ?
We may can achieve something here, if we all go in the same direction ??
Cordialement / Vriendelijke Groeten / Best Regards / Med Vänliga Hälsningar
Tore Agblad
Volvo Information Technology
Infrastructure Mainframe Design & Development
SE-405 08, Gothenburg Sweden
E-mail: [email protected]
http://www.volvo.com/volvoit/global/en-gb/
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