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processing of workloads in the system according to the company's business
goals, such as response time. WLM also manages the use of system resources,
such as processors and storage, to accomplish these business goals.
Provisioning often appears in the context of virtualization orchestration, and other
dynamic datacenter concepts, and there are tools in the market to help with the
creation of a dynamic datacenter. But each component of an IT infrastructure has
its own capabilities. The capabilities related to provisioning in IBM System z are:
– Dynamic resource distribution.
– A IBM System z server can be partitioned into as many as 60 logical
partitions.
– Each logical partition is completely isolated and protected ...