September 2006
Beginner to intermediate
232 pages
7h 30m
English
book
IBM z/VM and Linux on IBM System z: Virtualization Cookbook for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
by Gregory Geiselhart, Yohichi Hara, Bradford Hinson, Kyle Smith, Chris Young
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Chapter 1. Introduction to z/VM and Linux 3
1.3 Choices and decisions made in this book
When deciding on installing, maintaining, and provisioning (cloning) Linux virtual servers
under z/VM, there are many basic choices to make. Here are some of the more important
choices and assumptions that were made in this book:
Cloning product versus customized cloning
Cloning products, such as Aduva’s Onstage, IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager, IBM
Director function z/VM Center (briefly discussed in 1.4, “IBM Director and z/VM Center
Extension” on page 4) and Levanta, are outside the scope of this book. While these are all
viable solutions, the cloning described in this book allows you to customize Linux images
without requiring such products. However
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