References

The following documents are referenced in this white paper:

1. IBM Z:

   https://www.ibm.com/z

2. IBM z14:

   https://www.ibm.com/de-en/marketplace/z14#product-header-top

3. KVM base technology:

   https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/linux-on-systems?topic=virtualization-kvm

4. IBM Linux on Z and LinuxONE:

   https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/linux-on-systems?topic=linux-z-linuxone

5. TCP/IP, Wikipedia:

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP/IP

6. Open System Interconnection model (OSI):

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model

7. Layer 2 (Data Link Layer), Wikipedia:

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model#Layer_2:_Data_Link_Layer

8. Layer 3 (Network Layer), Wikipedia:

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model#Layer_3:_Network_Layer

9. Open vSwitch feature list:

   https://openvswitch.org/features

10. Private Network, Wikipedia:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network

11. uperf A network performance tool:

    https://www.uperf.org/

12. Network workload, KVM Network Performance - Best Practices and Tuning Recommendations:

    https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/linux-on-systems?topic=recommendations-network-workload

13. Testing methodology, KVM Network Performance - Best Practices and Tuning Recommendations:

    https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/linux-on-systems?topic=recommendations-testing-methodology

14. Path MTU Discovery, Wikipedia:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_MTU_Discovery

15. Linux on Z and LinuxONE, Development stream - Restrictions Networking subsection, Large MTU sizes may fail due to order-N allocation failed problem, developerWorks:

    https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/linux-on-systems?topic=tuning-network-interface-settings