What is z/VM?
IBM® z/VM® is a highly secure and scalable hypervisor and virtualization technology for cloud infrastructure and for running critical applications. IBM z/VM supports Linux®, z/OS®, z/VSE® and z/TPF operating systems on IBM Z® and LinuxONE servers. It can host thousands of virtual servers on a single system.
What’s new for z/VM?
IBM z/VM 7.2 and new z/VM capabilities can simplify the process for deploying maintenance across multiple non-SSI z/VM systems, and will provide greater availability and data redundancy for GDPS environments.
Benefits
Hybrid cloud capabilities
IBM z/VM, together with Linux, IBM Cloud Paks® and Red Hat® OpenShift® on IBM Z and LinuxONE provides a highly scalable, secure, and efficient on-premises cloud infrastructure for a hybrid multicloud architecture.
Workload performance
IBM tests indicate the IBM z15™ multi-frame system requires 23X fewer cores than compared x86 servers, and a 20% lower overall 5-year TCO when running mixed workloads consisting of open source and IBM proprietary software.¹
Key virtualization features of z/VM software
z/VM Single System Image
This clustering technology helps reduce planned outages and balance workloads across z/VM systems.
z/VM Performance Toolkit
This toolkit provides enhanced capabilities to monitor and report performance data.
RACF Security Server
Robust security software for virtualization helps protect your z/VM and guest system resources.
DirMaint
IBM Directory Maintenance (DirMaint™) for z/VM helps manage z/VM’s user directory.
Additional VM software and solutions to complement z/VM
Software for systems management
Manage z/VM and Linux systems with a complete solution
Use an intuitive, graphical-based z/VM management tool
Simplify infrastructure management of z/VM-based Linux virtual machines
Get your enterprise view of performance
Automate and monitor your z/VM systems and its guests
Solutions for backup and protection
Protect and manage tape
Back up z/VM data safely
Storage for virtualization
How to deploy Linux servers on z/VM
System programmers and administrators
Discover how to configure and use z/VM functions and facilities for Linux on Z.
Hear from customers
“With z/VM, we can dynamically re-allocate and cap resources. This is particularly valuable for our developers, because it helps ensure that the applications that we build are lean and can run in lower-provisioned environments.”
– Mike Riggs, Director of Judicial Information Technology, Supreme Court of Virginia
Training
VM product education
IBM Skills Gateway
Live virtual classes
¹DISCLAIMER: This is an IBM internal study designed to replicate a typical IBM customer workload usage in the marketplace. Results may vary. The workloads consisted of an airline flight reservation system (running MongoDB and node.js) and a transactional core banking application (running WAS and Db2). Four instances of the airline system were run, one instance simulating a Dev/QA environment, and three instances simulating a Production environment. The total number of IBM Z cores needed to deliver the workloads was 28. Both the x86 and z15 environments had access to the same storage array. Total Cost of Ownership is defined here to include hardware, software, labor, networking, floor space and energy costs over a period of 5 years. IBM internal hardware list prices were used. x86 server prices were acquired from IDC. IBM software pricing was standard list prices with 20% discount applied. For more details contact the IT Economics team at IBM.