Methods to pause a z/VM guest: Optimize the resource utilization of idling servers

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This document provides results for testing the process of suspending and resuming a Linux instance on IBM® System z® processors.

Published September 2011

This paper analyzes the behavior of five Linux™ z/VM® guests running a WebSphere workload and five Linux guests running a relational database (RDB) workload, when they are paused and restarted. The Linux suspend and resume function is compared to the z/VM CP STOP and BEGIN commands.

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