Re: RHEL 6 CPU Scalability

2017-04-03 Thread Marcy Cortes
n 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Wheeler, Mark L Sent: Monday, April 03, 2017 8:57 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] RHEL 6 CPU Scalability Thanks Ingo (and Scott)! 1) The app runs under IIB 2) We're running z/VM 6.3 (soon 6.4) in a four-member cluster

Re: RHEL 6 CPU Scalability

2017-04-03 Thread Wheeler, Mark L
four guests with twenty vCPUs each (total of 80) work? Best regards, Mark -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Ingo Adlung Sent: Monday, April 03, 2017 10:00 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: RHEL 6 CPU Scalability It r

Re: RHEL 6 CPU Scalability

2017-04-03 Thread Ingo Adlung
tuttgart, HRB 243294 Linux on 390 Port wrote on 03.04.2017 15:46:38: > From: "Wheeler, Mark L" > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Date: 03.04.2017 15:47 > Subject: [LINUX-390] RHEL 6

Re: RHEL 6 CPU Scalability

2017-04-03 Thread Scott Rohling
First - how many 'real' CPUs or IFLs do you have ? You don't want more virtual defined to a guest then you have actually defined to z/VM.. (I'm assuming z/VM here) Scott Rohling On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 6:46 AM, Wheeler, Mark L wrote: > Greetings! > > We have eight RHEL 6 servers with

RHEL 6 CPU Scalability

2017-04-03 Thread Wheeler, Mark L
Greetings! We have eight RHEL 6 servers with 8 vCPUs each handling a large workload, which continues to grow. We could expand the server farm horizontally by adding more servers, or vertically by adding more vCPUs. I'm concerned about SMP effects of adding more vCPUs but don't have any data to