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
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:
Recently there have been a lot of discussions with respect to what environments are supported for Oracle DB on the mainframe. On the Marist zLinux mailing list there is a good reply from a Oracle person. Here are a few … Read the rest
Red Hat has announced the availability of RHEL 5.8. You can find more information on this here:
From a mainframe perspective this has … Read the rest
The required Linux distribution versions for the base support of new features like OSA Express4 are documented in the announcement letter (pdf). To find it scroll down to the Software requirements section.
The virtualization cookbook from Michael MacIsaac, Brad Hinson, Marian Gasparovic received a major updates to cover z/VM 6.2 (including singe system image), RHEL 6.2 and the upcoming SLES11 SP2. All is now in one book and it’s even got a … Read the rest
In the past month a few questions regarding the use of OSPF and VIPA on Linux have been raised. This is especially important to clients combining z/OS and Linux and System z. So here are a two references to start … Read the rest
Red Hat has announced the availability of RHEL 6.2. New general features are described in this “what’s new” document. The kernel level is now kernel-2.6.32-220.el6.
As usual there are the release notes and the technical notes in two separate documents. … Read the rest
The sysstat package is included in all distributions but not always installed by default. It’s a collection of performance monitoring tools and you can check the options for your current version in the manual pages. It’s platform independent and so … Read the rest
In the new white paper “Sharing A WebSphere Application Server V8 Installation Among Many Linux for IBM System z Servers” you find a hands on description on a more complex WAS server setup. This is the update of the white … Read the rest