z/vm Smarter Computing with Efficiency at Scale z/vm 6.3 A Quick Introduction Dan Griffith Bill Bitner IBM Endicott
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Brief Agenda z/vm important dates z/vm 6.3 quick tour Discussion 5
z/vm Release Status Summary Release GA End of Marketing End of Service Minimum Server Supported z/vm 5.4 9/2008 3/2012 12/2014 [1] z800, z900 z/vm 6.1 10/2009 12/2011 4/2013 z10 z/vm 6.2 12/2011 [2] 4/2015 z10 z/vm 6.3 7/2013 [2] [2] [2] z10 [1] End of Service is December 31, 2014 or end of IBM service for System z9, whichever is later [2] To be Announced Please contact Bill Bitner (bitnerb@us.ibm.com) if you have a customer who wants extended support for z/vm 6.1. 6 Supported, no longer orderable Marketed, Supported Preview Announce
z/vm Version 6 Release 3 Making Room to Grow Your Business Major enhancements for scalability and performance Support for larger amounts of real memory Increased processor efficiency z/vm z/vm z/vm z/vm z/vm z/vm z/vm z/vm z/vm z/vm 6.1 z/vm 6.2 z/vm 6.3 7
z/vm Version 6 Release 3 Large Memory Support Real memory limit raised from 256 GB to 1 TB Proportionately increases total virtual memory based on tolerable overcommitment levels and workload dependencies Removes reorder completely Virtual machine memory limit remains unchanged at 1 TB Paging DASD utilization and requirements change Improves ability to reserve storage for users and segments Expanded storage continues to be supported with a limit of 128 GB But our runs show it is better to spend that storage on central 8
z/vm Version 6 Release 3 HiperDispatch Improved processor efficiency Better n-way curves Supported processor limit of 32 remains unchanged Better use of processor cache to take advantage of cache-rich system design of more recent machines Two components: Dispatching affinity Vertical CPU management 9
z/vm Version 6 Release 3 xcat to be shipped and installed with z/vm xcat Extreme Cloud Administration Toolkit Allows for Provisioning Function added to xcat that will be ready for z/vm 6.3 Capture ability to capture a virtual machine into an image that can be deployed at a later time. Deploy ability to deploy an image from previously captured image data. Export ability to export an image from a local repository for retention or transmission elsewhere. Import ability to import an image (possibly created elsewhere) into the local image repository. Delete Image ability to remove an image from a local image repository. List ability to discover images in a local image repository and information about the images. This is of primary use to xcat. SMAPI xcat Open Stack IBM Tivoli Products 10
z/vm Version 6 Release 3 Other Items Enhanced dump speed is improved for both ECKD and SCSI FCP data router lets guest exploit DMA capability in FCP card Improvements in exploiting DS 8000, especially in PPRC unit checks LGR can move a guest that uses a port-based VSWITCH Support for OSA-Express5S devices Improvements in VSWITCH recovery and stall prevention Guest exploitation of Crypto Express4S SSL server upgrade to z/os 1.13 equivalency Linux dump can now include the NSS z/vm 6.3 cannot be managed by Unified Resource Manager (see SOD) We intend to have z/vm 6.3 evaluated wrt EAL 4+ and FIPS CMVP (see SOD) z/vm 6.3 is the last XSTORE release (see SOD) z/vm 5.4 customers: zec12 and zbc12 are your last processors (see SOD) 11
With z/vm 6.3 we want our customers to know that they are the focus of the release Key Takeaways z/vm 6.3 continues the investment into virtualization on System z such that it allows customers to easily deploy additional virtual server workload on System z. Efficiency is a key attribute of the release. Memory scalability to 1 TB and HiperDispatch to use our CPUs more effectively Consumability or ease of system use continues to be a very important aspect as we look to an open standards interface and to an enhanced GUI for system management 12 12
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Additional Information z/vm 6.3 web page http://www.vm.ibm.com/zvm630/ xcat and z/vm Systems Management http://www.vm.ibm.com/sysman/ Contact Bill Bitner to review z/vm 6.3 with a customer bitnerb@us.ibm.com 14
Contact information Dan Griffith z/vm Development and Planning IBM System z Virtualization Lab Endicott, NY USA DanGriff@us.ibm.com Bill Bitner z/vm Customer Focus & Care z/vm Development Lab Endicott, NY USA bitnerb@us.ibm.com 15