Alan wrote: - Politics. A way different definition of "turf". "When is Distributed not Distributed? When it's part of zEnterprise."
What's with the French accent Alan? I thought Altmark was German or Danish or something? But "zee Enterprise" sounds a lot better than "zed Enterprise" for sure. Marcy "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 Alan Altmark Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 3:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] IBM zEnterprise System announced??? On Thursday, 07/22/2010 at 04:58 EDT, Dave Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > So true, Barton....."nothing to see here...move along...." :-) > > I'd like more technical details on how workloads running on zLinux can > be integrated with supporting processes running on the blade Linux. can > a zLinux process control a blade server Linux process directly and if > so, how? > > Nonetheless, an intriguing announcement for sure....it will be > interesting to see how the mainstream IT press plays it out. Marcy is right. Don't think of the zBX as an attached processor - it isn't. It's a BladeCenter with network connections (via internal "top of rack" switches) to the z196. The Unified Resource Manager controls virtual server [z, p, or x] access to the internal data network. You assign a Linux guest and an AIX image to VLAN 500 are they are now talking to each other. So from a technical point of view, it's hard to tell this from distributed. But from an IT management point of view, the world is vastly different: - A single UI to manage common tasks. - An in-the-box network could eliminate encryption requirements, improving response time and reducing CPU consumption. - Politics. A way different definition of "turf". "When is Distributed not Distributed? When it's part of zEnterprise." Just some food for thought, even if it is boring. :-) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
