About this publication

This book contains general concepts, planning guidelines, instructions, and reference information for creating and managing partitions on systems that are running in Dynamic Partition Manager (DPM) mode.

DPM is a feature of the following IBM Z® and IBM LinuxONE (LinuxONE) systems:
  • IBM z16™: machine types 3931 and 3932
  • IBM z15®: machine types 8561 and 8562
  • IBM z14®: machine types 3906 and 3907
  • IBM LinuxONE Emperor 4: machine type 3931
  • IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper 4: machine type 3932
  • IBM LinuxONE III: machine types 8561 and 8562
  • IBM LinuxONE Emperor II (Emperor II): machine type 3906
  • IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper II (Rockhopper II): machine type 3907

This book describes DPM Version 5, which is available starting with Hardware Management Console / Support Element (HMC/SE) Version 2.16.0. For a list of prerequisites and functions introduced with DPM Version 5, see Prerequisites for using Dynamic Partition Manager.

Partitions on a DPM-enabled system support the following operating systems and hypervisors:
  • Various Linux® distributions, which are listed on the IBM tested platforms page for Linux environments: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/linux-ibm-z-tested-platforms. These distributions include supported versions of Red Hat® Enterprise Linux (RHEL), SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), and Ubuntu Server (KVM or LPAR DPM).
  • z/VM® 7.1 or later. z/VM is supported as a virtualization hypervisor on which you can run multiple Linux images.
DPM also supports IBM Secure Service Container partitions.

Figures included in this document illustrate concepts and are not necessarily accurate in content, appearance, or specific behavior.