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AIX Virtualization

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So, while my blogging has been slow--it's only because the rest of my Domino activity has not. I'm doing a mountain of upgrades, on AIX, Linux and Windows. I've been reading more and more about IBM's attempt to let Linux run on its AIX virtualization with Workload Partitions (WPAR).

While it requires an upgrade to AIX 6, WPARs will run on Power 5 architecture--which is a promising way to extend the usefulness of an existing AIX infrastructure. Sooner or later I hope to have the opportunity to run Domino on RHEL as installed on an AIX server. I still have a lot of questions about computing efficiency and creating a useful cost analysis--but AIX/Linux virtualization looks to be considered.

In the meantime, IBM has just released a RedBook on Virtualizing an Infrastructure with System p and Linux.

Posted by Jack Dausman On 01/15/2008 | Permalink

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2 - Interesting, isn't it? <irony>Between IBM supporting Linux on AIX, and Microsoft supporting hosted Linux on its virtualization platform, there won't be any proprietary systems left ! </irony>

Posted by Jack Dausman At 10:07:06 PM On 01/15/2008 | - Website - |

1 - I just had a crash course on IBM AIX 6.1 Virtualization with one of my colleaques, 8 days stomped into 4 hours. Oh boy, my head smoked but it was very useful and informative.
Anyway, the key message was that idle time of CPUs can be utilized by IBM POWER6 Virtualization, most of the CPUs are most of the time idle, and that unused power can be utilized very efficiently using IBM's Virtualization technology. It's a hardware chip and software combo, which is part of every System p server. You can do the math yourself, sum up cumulatively all the idle time your servers have, and whine that you couldn't use it :)

Posted by Mika Heinonen At 05:48:43 AM On 01/15/2008 | - Website - |