Test approach

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The live guest relocation test performed for this paper followed the same pattern used in z/VM® 6.2 Live Guest Relocation with Linux™ Middleware.

For details, see Test approach.

For each test, the following steps were performed:

  1. IPL both z/VM members.
  2. Configure the ISFC logical link, as described in z/VM configuration.
  3. Start z/VM monitoring.
  4. Start one or more Linux guest virtual machines running various workloads on LPAR2.
  5. Let workloads stabilize for a certain time.
  6. Relocate one Linux guest from LPAR2 to LPAR1.
  7. Terminate workloads after some time.
  8. Gather test data.