IBM tries server approach to PC business

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I think the LTSP model is better. All applications share the memory for

OS, office suite, browser, etc. I suppose with a virtual machine, the hypervisor could be smart enough to share the memory segments for the OS and applications read only. Is that the case here?? But, seems kind of silly to have 12 schedulers, etc, running on each blade. Better to have just one OS running sharing time amongst the users. In the LTSP mode, it would be simpler to give priority to interactive applications. In the case of VMs, you would have to have a way for the hypervisor to prioritize jobs to give quick response time to interactive applications. Does such a mechanism exist for hypervisors???

Maybe the Solaris model would be better here, where you can create OS partitions that are protected from each other.

Well, the technology is advancing, but IBM should be using Xen, NOT VMWare.

Posted by: DonnieBoy   Posted on: 10/19/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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