2 IBM z/VM and Linux on IBM System z: Virtualization Cookbook for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
z/VM is one of the easiest operating systems to customize. There are only a handful of
configuration files. After you set up a z/VM, it runs for years without much maintenance or
administrative requirements.
You can easily pair the latest Linux technologies with the foundation of reliability,
availability, and scalability on the z/VM and IBM System z hardware platform.
z/VM 5.2, which is available from December 2005, provides major improvements when
operating on IBM System z or zSeries servers with large memory configurations. Scalability is
improved with the control program (CP) that is presently using memory above the 2 GB
memory address. For ex ...