Re: How many virtual servers per IFL?

2010-12-08 Thread Burton, Randy
On Monday December 6, Marcy Cortes arranged the electrons to say: In my SHARE user experiences presentation I usually warn people against even answering that question. Stephen has a good approach to an answer. My boss thinks I'm a smart xxx when I turn it around and ask him How many = rocks can

Re: How many virtual servers per IFL?

2010-12-08 Thread Wiggins, Mark
how many servers can run, effectively, on 1 IFL for your comparison... Mark Wiggins University of Connecticut -Original Message- From: John Cousins [mailto:john.cous...@bristol.gov.uk] Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 12:08 PM Subject: How many virtual servers per IFL? Here we go

Re: How many virtual servers per IFL?

2010-12-07 Thread Agblad Tore
] Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 18:07 To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: How many virtual servers per IFL? Here we go again! Without success, we've been trying to get the IT department here to adopt z/Linux since 2003! Our zVM licence has been recently cancelled, and I have just had a request

Re: How many virtual servers per IFL?

2010-12-07 Thread Mike Shorkend
This might be obvious, but when attempting to estimate the number of servers you can load on a Z10 - keep in mind that a z10 EC is aprroximately 40% faster than a z10 BC. On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Tom Duerbusch duerbus...@stlouiscity.comwrote: I will shot gun some of them... 1.

Re: How many virtual servers per IFL?

2010-12-07 Thread Burton, Randy
John, I've built the cost model and justification for zLinux at BBT and can share with you what I have. Feel free to contact me directly at rbur...@bbandt.com. I can send you some spreadsheets and other info. We have 2 z10 EC machines and 4 zVM LPARs - 1 prod LPAR on each of the z10s, 1 test

How many virtual servers per IFL?

2010-12-06 Thread John Cousins
Here we go again! Without success, we've been trying to get the IT department here to adopt z/Linux since 2003! Our zVM licence has been recently cancelled, and I have just had a request from our Enterprise Architects for some costing for z/Linux as they need to compare server virtualisation

Re: How many virtual servers per IFL?

2010-12-06 Thread Stephen Frazier
If you are comparing VM and VMware, I would estimate that 1 IFL will support about the same load as 5-10 HP blades running ESX. How many virtual severs will VMware support? Depending on the workload sometimes only 1 sometimes 70 per ESX. How many will VM support? Between a few and a thousand per

Re: How many virtual servers per IFL?

2010-12-06 Thread Marcy Cortes
-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Stephen Frazier Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 9:56 AM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] How many virtual servers

Re: How many virtual servers per IFL?

2010-12-06 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
How about savings in power consumption. If configured correctly a virtual server won't cost you anything. Well, hardly anything. Running a dedicated server you must size the server for it's peak load. In VM you run multiple servers and if their peak load doesn't overlap you don't need to size for

Re: How many virtual servers per IFL?

2010-12-06 Thread Tom Duerbusch
I will shot gun some of them... 1. Disaster recover is much easier on the mainframe. In effect, no matter what hardware is replaced with what hardware, it is all the same. With PC type servers, the hardware, hence the software drivers are constantly changing. This may force you to