Re: [SAGE] INCOSE

[John Sechrest <sechrest@jas.peak.org>]

"Stephen P. Schaefer" <sschaefer@acm.org> writes:

 % Also, part of the systems engineering approach is to model solutions
 % before building them, but in the case of computer system administration,
 % it is often more expensive to model a system (representation +
 % instrumentation + interpretation + measurement) than to build it.  I do
 % hope that virtualization techniques (e.g., Solaris domains, VMware, Xen)
 % will begin to give us the tools to do cost-effective modeling.

 I have had two client installations where I did the configuration and 
 modeling of the systems in virtual terms before I did the real work.
 I used a tool that I am working on (http://mln.sourceforge.net) to 
 represent a collection of 10 different virtual machines and ran that
 test before I deployed it for the client.

 I think that virtualization is already doing the job of modeling these
 problems.



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