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New Whitepaper “Using the Linux cpuplugd Daemon to manage CPU and memory resources from z/VM Linux guests”

July 4, 2012 May 3, 2019 / By Eberhard Pasch / Uncategorized / Leave a Comment

CPU and memory resources are normally shared in a virtualized environment. Therefore multiple guests are fighting for the same resources. Before the release of SLES11 SP2 and RHEL6.2 the automatic management of the number of virtual CPUs and the memory … Read the rest

New Redpaper “Silent Installation Experiences with Oracle Database 11gR2 Real Application Clusters on Linux on System z”

July 3, 2012 May 3, 2019 / By Eberhard Pasch / Uncategorized / Leave a Comment

IBM has published a new Redpaper covering the so called “silent mode” installation of Oracle. This installation method eliminates the GUI and user input during installation. Instead all parameters are specified in a file. Note that this applies to the … Read the rest

Fedora 17 for IBM System z 64bit official release

June 29, 2012 May 3, 2019 / By Eberhard Pasch / Uncategorized / Leave a Comment

Dan Horák from Red Hat announced the availability of the latest Fedora release for System z today. Congratulations to the team for making this available shortly after the release on the Intel platform!

The download is available from the Fedoraproject … Read the rest

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 released

June 25, 2012 May 3, 2019 / By Eberhard Pasch / Uncategorized / Leave a Comment

Red Hat has announced the availability of RHEL 6.3. The kernel level is now kernel-2.6.32-279.el6, for the main bug fixes see the kernel update description.

As usual there are the release notes and the technical notes in two separate … Read the rest

Linux distribution support for HX5 blades integrated in zBX

June 22, 2012 May 3, 2019 / By Eberhard Pasch / Uncategorized / Leave a Comment

A number of people asked me about the supported Linux distributions for the Intel blade based zEnterprise BladeCenter Extensions. For this information look at

  • IBM BladeCenter HX5 (7873) Planning Information for the IBM zEnterprise System page 5
  • IBM zEnterprise BladeCenter
… Read the rest

New article: Dynamic Program Analysis on Linux Using Valgrind

May 18, 2012 May 3, 2019 / By Eberhard Pasch / Uncategorized / Leave a Comment

Did you have any memory problems with your applications recently? Wild accesses, improperly initialized variables, memory leaks, illegal frees etc sounds familiar? Then you should take a look at valgrind. It’s now available for Linux on System z as … Read the rest

New Whitepaper: “Java Design and Coding for Virtualized Environments”

March 26, 2012 May 3, 2019 / By Eberhard Pasch / Uncategorized / Leave a Comment

Ever wondered why your Java application is not running as smooth as it should in a virtualized environment? There are multiple reasons for this and so Steve Wehr gives some explanation for this in this new whitepaper. This isn’t … Read the rest

Whitepaper update: “Explore Decimal Floating Point support in Linux on System z”

March 8, 2012 May 3, 2019 / By Eberhard Pasch / Uncategorized / Leave a Comment

Since a few years no System z offers hardware support for decimal floating point operations as defined by IEEE 754-2008. This allows for exact and very fast calculations in the decimal (and not the normal binary) system in the … Read the rest

New Whitepaper: “WebSphere Application Server Horizontal Versus Vertical JVM Stacking Report”

March 7, 2012 May 3, 2019 / By Eberhard Pasch / Uncategorized / Leave a Comment

This new whitepaper addresses the question if one should do a 1:1 consolidation or putting more than one server into a zLinux guest from a performance perspective. The sweet spot for the setup used here was at 10 JVMs per … Read the rest

SLES 11 SP2 released

February 28, 2012 May 3, 2019 / By Eberhard Pasch / Uncategorized / Leave a Comment

More than 21 months after SLES 11 SP1 today SUSE released the SP2 of their enterprise distribution. You can find more information on this release here:

  • press release
  • release notes (s390x version)
  • overview and complete list of new features for
… Read the rest
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