IBM Lotus Domino 6.5 for Linux on Zseries Implementation

Highlights

Capacity planning is the science of taking existing knowledge about resource requirements, and projecting future needs based on known changes to workload or environment. When companies plan a consolidation to move many servers to Linux running under z/VM, that infrastructure will have a great impact on the resource requirements of the z/VM system.

In this chapter, we discuss some of the choices in infrastructure, and the impact on capacity requirements. We describe capacity planning for the following subsystems:

• Processor

• Storage

• DASD

• Network