The Virtualization Cookbook for IBM Z Volume 1: IBM z/VM 7.2

Deploying and maintaining Linux workloads

This chapter describes how to begin your first Linux installation. It also describes common tasks that are run during administration, maintenance, and expansion tasks to accommodate more workloads.

This chapter includes the following topics:

•11.1, “Planning a Linux virtual machine” on page 346

•11.2, “Considerations for disk storage types” on page 346

•11.3, “Network attachment options and considerations” on page 361

•11.4, “Common DirMaint tasks” on page 362

11.1 Planning a Linux virtual machine

Every ...