Re: System i LPARs

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

FrankieIII at Frankenseries.com is a 270. He has three i5/OS LPARs and 
Two Linux LPARs (SUSE and RedHat) . Now granted we don't do production 
work on him but he's also running PHP and other webservers, Domino (our 
live mail server) and we build i5/OS distribution media there.  He 
performs pretty darn well.

Linux hard to set up? Maybe the first time because of what is different 
not because it's hard. The hardest part was getting the CRTNWSD command 
correct (and that wasn't all that hard!)  Is it a Pig? Well if you are 
doing something that needs pure processor RPMs then it won't run very 
fast. If you want to manage strictly through the GUI you are also gonna 
see slow. But real Linux SERVERS humm a long a Runlevel 3 where there is 
no GUI anyway because they are servers  not workstations. So as with 
anything YMMV.  Expensive? Not sure where that came from! Pay for the 
distro (Under $1K) and crank it up with Linux you can do it with *ZERO 
extra hardware.

- Larry

Pat Barber wrote:
> I have read some material on LPARs but I was under the impression
> that is was (1) Pain to set up
>              (2) Expensive to set up
>              (3) Requires more Unix background than I have
>              (4) Machine Pig for smaller boxes
>
> I was involved in VM/370 many moons ago and that required a
> pretty serious machine for that time frame.
>
> Joe seems to be talking about LPAR on a fairly small machine.
>
> Did something suddenly change ?
>
>
>
> Mark S. Waterbury wrote:
>
>   
> > Hi, guys:
> >
> > VMWare only runs on Intel platforms, and can only virtualize Intel 
> > virtual machines.
> >
> > In the same vein, the "father" of LPARs was VM/370 -- that OS created 
> > multiple System/370 virtual machines on a single host IBM System/370.
> >     
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