Consoles You Use

As the z/VM operator, you can use several consoles. Consoles can be located on the same physical device (workstation, PC, display) or on separate devices. Because of the flexibility of z/VM, the number of consoles varies by customer installation. Depending on your installation, there might be one production system or many production systems. There can be hundreds of virtual machines, each running a production system. Regardless of the number of consoles, the following are the four types of consoles available and a description of each:
  • Hardware Management Console
  • Primary system operator console
  • Virtual Console for each virtual machine
  • Production system's system console when there is a production system running in a virtual machine.
Note: Although the number of consoles at each site depends on the installation, each installation has at least one Hardware Management Console, at least one primary system operator console, and one or more virtual consoles to control virtual machines. A production system often has its own system console.