____/ Rex Ballard on Monday 25 June 2007 19:54 : \____
> On Jun 25, 11:06 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> IBM Previews Virtualization Management Tool for Power-Based Boxes
>>
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>> | ...Virtual Availability Manager, within the Systems Director
>> | Virtualization Manager tool will allow customers who deploy a Xen
>> | hypervisor on their Linux-on-X64 servers to create what IBM is
>> | calling a "high availability farm" that can be used to rehost
>> | virtual machine partitions that are taken out by crashes.
>> `----
> The article is great, but the headline of this posting is misleading.
> IBM has offered Linux for ALL platforms, including the I-Series, P-
> Series, X-Series, and Z-Series since 1999. IBM has also offered Linux
> within the LPARs of the I, P, and Z series, all of which have their
> own hypervisor.
>
> IBM licenses some of it's VM technology to VMWare. Keep in mind that
> IBM has been doing VM since 1968, as a way to provide low-cost
> development systems to companies who didn't want to buy dedicated
> mainframes for each development project.
>
> In the late 1990s, IBM streamlined VM for the Z-series, creating ZVM,
> which was even more efficient and faster. The highly optimized
> virtual machines have made it possible to run as many as 16 VMs per
> processor on P-Series systems, and as many as 1000 VMs per processor
> on Z series. One demonstration of Z series created 64,000 VMs, each
> searching several other servers and serving several other VM clients.
> Not a true "benchmark", but a good way to show some of the capability.
>
>> http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh062507-story07.html
Thanks for pointing that out. I was aware that they have done this for a while,
but this management tool appears to be new. The way I thought the subject line
should be read it: *New* virtualisation management software helps bring Linux
to more servers, with emphasis on "New". You know this stuff /way/ better than
I do.
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