Chapter 15. Performance and Capacity Planning

The decision to run a particular set of work on the mainframe entails many factors, one of which is the performance of the environment. Part of the value you can get from the Linux-on-the-mainframe environment is the efficiency of the mainframe to support the diverse workload of a server hardware consolidation environment. Since we expect the majority of the Linux-on-the-mainframe deployments to be on z/VM, this chapter focuses on performance and capacity planning in this environment.

Sometimes, performance and capacity planning on a physical server farm means watching for response time problems. When response times reach the limit of acceptability, one solution might be to split the workload and ...

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