Overview of the test environment

An overview of the environment that was used for testing how polarization modes affect middleware performance is provided in this topic.

Figure 1 shows the testing environment in regard to guests, virtual configurations, and physical configuration.
Figure 1. Overview of z/VM® 6.3 HiperDispatch test environment

Overview of the environment used for testing z/VM 6.3 HiperDispatch polarization modes.

For a complete description of the setup and configuration of the hardware and software stack, see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/linux-on-systems?topic=papers-zvm-63-resource-overcommitment.