Introduction
This chapter covers the concepts of open virtualization on IBM Power Systems. It introduces the IBM PowerKVM version 2 virtualization stack and covers the following topics:
•Quick introduction to virtualization
•Introduction and basic concepts of PowerKVM
•IBM Power Systems
•IBM PowerKVM v2 software stack
•A comparison of IBM PowerKVM and IBM PowerVM®
•Terminology used throughout this book
1.1 IBM Power Systems
IBM Power Systems is ...