Accounting
One of the advantages of consolidating an enterprise’s distributed systems onto IBM System z using Linux and z/VM is the ability to establish a precise accounting system. Information technology costs are always a key factor when considering server consolidation, so it is necessary to establish a charge-back method.
z/VM has an accounting system service to collect accounting information for guest machines. If the accounting is enabled, CP collects resource usage information about guests and stores that data in memory.
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