I'll just add one more comment...I really should read all the replies before posting mine!
As Suresh and Timothy wrote, you can run zAAP workloads on zIIPs, if you don't have any zAAPs installed. This is commonly called "zAAP on zIIIP"...I imagine the vernacular will change as will the CPU names once this is sorted out, probably in the next iteration of the zServer....in 2015? You can assign physical zIIPs and zAAPs (managed by PR/SM) as logical zIIPs and zAAPs to a z/VM LPAR, and then assign them as virtual zIIPs and zAAPs (managed by z/VM) to a z/OS guest; and as was pointed, out ICFs and PUs characterized as extra SAPs can also be assigned to a z/VM LPAR. I use the term "Native Linux" to mean "Linux on System z running in LPAR mode." There, I avoided using "z/Linux", but it's a mouthful. I don't know many people who do this because: 1) (and I insert "arguably" here gentle reader in anticipation of the outrage!) Linux is usually used for smaller applications and some visualization really makes sense; and 2) z/VM can manage memory, paging, and I/O better than Linux can on System z. So we have "Linux in LPAR mode", and "Linux as a guest under z/VM". I know IBM wants to continue to reassure customers that "it's real Linux"... but what's in a name? Cheers, Jon Butler ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
