<font size="2"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">i always assume z series when I use or hear the word mainframe. I guess that is because </font></font><font size="2"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">about 90% of the "mainframe" market uses the IBM z series... <br>
</font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Adam Tauno Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:awilliam@whitemice.org">awilliam@whitemice.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 13:05 -0500, Don Ellis wrote:<br>
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Adam Tauno Williams<br>
> <<a href="mailto:awilliam@whitemice.org">awilliam@whitemice.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> > On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 12:32 -0400, Bob Kline wrote:<br>
> >> I smell a Guiness entry here.....<br>
> > Not even close. I've seen demonstrations of hosts running well in<br>
> > excess of 10,000 VMs.<br>
> Back around 2000 (or a little earlier) I saw an article by an IBMer<br>
> who was testing mainframe Linux, and started up 40,000 Linux instances<br>
> during his lunch hour. Much larger numbers have been reported since.<br>
> Of course, that was on what used to be called a "mainframe", and they<br>
> were all the same distro. Other records could be for most number of<br>
> distros on a host and for different class of host.<br>
<br>
</div>At which point the records become tedious; how about: the most VMs run<br>
on a single host with an ASUS motherboard assembled by a ginger born<br>
under the winter solstice?<br>
<br>
These days what technically constitutes a "mainframe"? I can buy off<br>
the shelf servers that support hot-swapped RAM & CPUs.<br>
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