I joined IBM in 1985 and have worked in VM performance my entire career, and I love it. If you love performance (or hate it) you might want to check out the other VM performance info. My understanding of what VM performance means in the real world grew greatly when I became a development rep to the VM Performance and Capacity Planning Project of the SHARE organization.

More of my Tidbits...

• VM Collectibles
• If...then you're probably not on VM.
• Motivation
• Where I'd Rather Be
• Presentations Various presentations I have done.
• Performance Almanac

Other links of interest (at least to me)

• LSPR link on S/390 page. LSPR stands for Large Systems Performance Reference. Processor sizings without using that nasty MIPS word.

Downloads

• For abstracts, see the packages page.
• For download instructions, see the download page.
• Be sure to read the license agreement first.

The packages are:

• MONVIEW - various tools and pipe filters to work with raw monitor data.
• EMIFREPT - simple tool to get report on EMIF channels from VM monitor data.
• VDISKRPT - simple tool to get report on virtual disk in storage usage from VM monitor data.

Send me e-mail if you have comments about VM performance or have suggestions on what you want to see here.