Book description
IBM® Wave for z/VM® (IBM Wave) is a virtualization management solution for IBM z/VM and Linux on z Systems™. This virtualization management software provides a simplified and cost-effective way for companies to harness the consolidation capabilities of the IBM z™ Systems platform and its ability to host the workloads of tens of thousands of commodity servers. IBM Wave is a complete management solution for z Systems based virtual server farms.
This IBM Redbooks® publication provides a guide to understanding IBM Wave by providing information about the IBM Wave architecture and how it fits into the cloud. This publication also provides a planning and design guide that is based on common scenarios. This publication also provides installation and configuration task information and how to manage and operate the environment.
The intended audience for this publication is IT Architects who are responsible for planning their IBM Wave environments and IT Specialists who are responsible for implementing them.
Table of contents
- Front cover
- Notices
- IBM Redbooks promotions
- Preface
- Summary of changes
- Part 1 Architecture and installation
- Chapter 1. Introduction to IBM Wave for z/VM
- Chapter 2. IBM Wave for z/VM architecture
- Chapter 3. Planning and design
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Chapter 4. Installation and configuration
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4.1 Preinstallation tasks
- 4.1.1 Managed Linux system prerequisites
- 4.1.2 Preinstallation configuration tasks for z/VM
- 4.1.3 z/VM system management application programming interface
- 4.1.4 DirMaint
- 4.1.5 TCP/IP for z/VM
- 4.1.6 Performance Toolkit
- 4.1.7 Single-system image definitions
- 4.1.8 RACF definitions
- 4.1.9 SCSI DASD definitions
- 4.2 IBM Wave installation
- 4.3 IBM Wave Command-Line Interface installation
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4.1 Preinstallation tasks
- Part 2 Using IBM Wave for z/VM
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Chapter 5. Managing and operating the user interface environment
- 5.1 IBM Wave user interface
- 5.2 Toolbar
- 5.3 Viewers
- 5.4 IBM Wave Enviroment Viewers
- 5.5 The Status Bar
- 5.6 Group management
- 5.7 Project management
- 5.8 Creating reports
- 5.9 User management
- 5.10 Backup option for IBM Wave
- 5.11 Using the IBM Wave Command-Line Interface
- 5.12 Communication-Less Connection technology
- Chapter 6. Managing IBM z/VM
- Chapter 7. Managing Linux virtual machines
- Chapter 8. IBM Wave for z/VM parameters
- Appendix A. Miscellaneous
- Related publications
- Back cover
Product information
- Title: IBM Wave for z/VM Installation, Implementation, and Exploitation
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2015
- Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
- ISBN: 9780738441139
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