Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 11, 2007 01:25 AM
Running 200 vm per box is trivial.
The first time IBM tried it they passed 4,000 vms on an s/390, and typical installations go well over 1,000 vms per box. Check out: <a href="http://linuxfocus.org/English/March2004/article328.shtml" title="linuxfocus.org">http://linuxfocus.org/English/March2004/article32<nobr>8<wbr></nobr> .shtml</a linuxfocus.org> for details.
Here are the basic requirements: The Requirements for running Linux on the S/390
* 9672 G5/G6, Multirise 3000 or z/Series 800, 900, 990 IBM Processor
* 64Mb+ Memory (very minimum - distributions and applications dependent)
* 500 Cyl + Disk space ( Model 3390 - small minimum system)
* IBM Network Device Support (one required) Ethe
* rnet, Token Ring, Fast Ethernet, ESCON, OSA or HiperSocket. There are more devices to support.
* Before Linux can use a device the associated driver for zSeries and S/390 device must be available to the kernel.
* There are kernel resident drivers and external drivers for S/390 and zSeries devices.
* External drivers are modules loaded on request with their parameters by means of commands.
* Resident drivers receive their parameters at boot time, from a kernel parameter line, held in a file. === GreyGeek
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Re:Excellent - Almost -^^^^^For Sure!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 11, 2007 01:25 AMThe first time IBM tried it they passed 4,000 vms on an s/390, and typical installations go well over 1,000 vms per box. Check out:
<a href="http://linuxfocus.org/English/March2004/article328.shtml" title="linuxfocus.org">http://linuxfocus.org/English/March2004/article32<nobr>8<wbr></nobr> .shtml</a linuxfocus.org>
for details.
Here are the basic requirements:
The Requirements for running Linux on the S/390
* 9672 G5/G6, Multirise 3000 or z/Series 800, 900, 990 IBM Processor
* 64Mb+ Memory (very minimum - distributions and applications dependent)
* 500 Cyl + Disk space ( Model 3390 - small minimum system)
* IBM Network Device Support (one required) Ethe
* rnet, Token Ring, Fast Ethernet, ESCON, OSA or HiperSocket. There are more devices to support.
* Before Linux can use a device the associated driver for zSeries and S/390 device must be available to the kernel.
* There are kernel resident drivers and external drivers for S/390 and zSeries devices.
* External drivers are modules loaded on request with their parameters by means of commands.
* Resident drivers receive their parameters at boot time, from a kernel parameter line, held in a file.
===
GreyGeek
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