[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] questions about production use
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 12:26, Manfred.Herrmann@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > The following technologies/architectures are on my research list and > my > stupid thoughts about the differences. > > xen -> pros: > - near to "mainframe" architecture <snip> > IBM mainframe Linux ... mainframe to expensive for me :-) Comparing Xen to an IBM zSeries mainframe is not really fair. The IBM boxes are much more than just virtualization and resource partitioning there's a whole support structure around these things. There's a reason they boast 5 9's of reliability -- because it actually happens. Try that with a single Intel machine and you'll find that it's fairly difficult if not impossible. It's not always that easy though. With that said, if you directly compare a zSeries mainframe to a dual Xeon you'll find that the dual Xeon is much more capable of handling the workloads you are most familiar with. Kernel compilation times are measured in a few minutes on the Xen guests, whereas our z800 takes on the order of 30 minutes. That's just one example, the top end of a fully loaded z800 (or even z900/z990) is far too expensive if you just compare performance expectations side by side. Our z800 can scale very well considering that it is only 1 machine.. but for the cost of scaling it up you could have purchased a few hundred Intel machines and done a much better job or more realistically a few dozen to keep support costs lower. All in all we've been very happy playing with Xen here. Our z800 is nice, but I'm not sure that we are the right kind of people to use it effectively. It always seems we push it outside of its designed specification. Stephen ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel
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