IBM z/VM
IBM z/VM is a hypervisor that can run hundreds to thousands of Linux servers on a single mainframe, together with classic operating systems, such as z/OS and z/VSE.
Components
- Control Program (CP)
- hypervisor and real-machine resource manager
- Conversational Monitor System (CMS)
- application and interactive user environment and file systems
- Language Environment
- Open Systems Adapter (OSA)
- REXX/VM
- REXX programming language interpreter
- TCP/IP for z/VM
- support for the TCP/IP networking
- Transparent Services Access Facility (TSAF)
- communication services
- Virtual Machine Serviceability Enhancements Staged/Extended (VMSES/E)
- tools suite for installing and servicing
Optional Facilities and Features
- Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem for VM (DFSMS/VM)
- Directory Maintenance Facility
- Open Systems Adapter/Support Facility
- Performance Toolkit
- RACF Security Server
- Remote Spooling Communications Subsystem Networking (RSCS)
Versions
- V3R1.0
- V6.1
- V6R2.0 (2010)
- V6.3 (2013)
- V6.4 (2016)