Re: Websphere on iSeries Linux

[Peter Grace <pgrace@xxxxxxxx>]

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Martin,

I know it's not quite the answer to your question, but we moved our
websphere install from a 270 to an x86 dell server running linux.
We've had performance increases that I'd venture to say show several
orders of magnitude improvement over what we had with the OS/400 install.

We still use the OS/400 databases for the data, but just use jdbc from
the linux server to the OS/400's backend, and it's much quicker.

As for running it in linux through an LPAR, I wish I could comment on
that-- we're waiting for a box big enough so that we can consolidate
our 400's and get a few linux lpar's to fiddle with.

PS -- the x86 system runs debian (not redhat or suse)

HTH in case you're looking into moving to a linux on x86 solution!

Peter


Martin Rowe wrote:
| Hi folks
|
| Can I ask those of you who're running Websphere on iSeries Linux what
| decided you on that combination, over running Websphere on a native
OS/400
| partition? I've just installed Linux (SLES 9) on our i825 with a
view to
| comparing its performance against an existing Websphere partition.
| Activating another processor for just Linux use isn't too much, but
adding
| OS/400 to that processor is around 10x as much :(
|
| Also, what Linux distribution are you running. I'm assuming it is more
| likely to be RedHat for those in the USA, and SUSE in Europe,
following the
| pattern on x86 boxes, but I've not been able to find figures for
iSeries
| Linux anywhere. I'm not sure what the pattern is here in the UK, as
most
| x86 Linux users I know run Debian, (which I'd love to try out on
iSeries,
| but not being a supported Websphere platform it isn't likely to get
me much
| good will at work <g>) with probably equal numbers of SUSE & Fedora
users
| following that.
|
| Regards, Martin
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