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by aus_ 3952 days ago
Good stuff here.

People fall into the mistake of just comparing cores and memory specs between x86_64 and s390x. The hardware redundancy benefits are pretty huge. You really need a full proof-of-concept to get any picture of how your workload might run on System z.

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> The hardware redundancy benefits are pretty huge.

Not really, IME.

> You really need a full proof-of-concept to get any picture of how your workload might run on System z.

Absolutely. Some workloads can make sense. For others...