15.3. Summary
Linux on the mainframe provides an excellent opportunity for hosting many mixed workloads due to its balanced design of CPU, memory, and I/O bandwidth. The design balance will help you meet the expectations of the end users of these differing workloads, as codified in the SLAs. Should you wish to tune, find anomalies in application behavior, or plan capacity for the future, you can do so relatively easily.
In a Linux-on-the-mainframe environment using z/VM, abundant data are available for analysis. z/VM also provides tools for tuning. There are tools for gathering and analyzing data.
Since z/VM functions as the means to adjust guest resources and is a good data gatherer and analyzer, in many cases no further interpretation of the ...
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