May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
164 pages
4h 32m
English
Content preview from ABCs of z/OS System Programming Volume 10
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Virtualization and Logical Partition (PR/SM) concepts
This chapter explains virtualization concepts in general and in detail, one type of virtualization in the z14 CPC, that is, PR/SM, also known as Logical Partitioning (LPAR).
Along these explanations, other IBM virtualization implementations are lightly described, such as z/VM, PKM for IBM Z, PowerVM®, and VTS.
In the PR/SM part, we cover the concept of a logical partition (LP), and how to define it in a z14 CPC. Here, we use the acronym PR/SM to describe the Licensed Internal Code (LIC) software ...