On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 03:33:10PM -0500, Kwan Lowe wrote: > On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 3:11 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > > > IBM Power servers since the Power4+ CPU (they are up to Power7 now) have > > hardware partitioning support, commonly known as LPAR. LPAR can be > > divided in units of 1/10th of a CPU. The software to manage this is > > now called PowerVM (its been called other names in the past, not all > > polite). > [informative text snipped] > > Yes, it is some nice stuff... > > In particular, having the hardware partitioning capability plays nice > with Oracle licensing. Under KVM or Xen we still have to license the > entire system. This probably won't change with the newer kvm, but one > can hope. > It's kind of funny since OracleVM *is* Xen, and it's counted as "hardware partitioning" :) -- Pasi > On the Linux side I would like to see how KSM (kernel memory merge) > stacks up against memory compression on the Power7 side. Not sure if > this made it into RHEL6, but hope springs eternal... > > Storage management is always a big issue for me. AIX has some really > great tools for managing disks. In Linux the LUN, block and fs layer > are still relatively decoupled which gives an enormous amount of > flexibility but certain types of changes require multiple commands on > Linux. > > On the desktop side I've been running RHEL6 as my primary environment > since release. Transition was easy. My old kickstart files needed > tweaking, but so far it's been a breeze. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos