This session aims to give the participant an introductory understanding of z/VM traditional installation and upgrade installation. No experience with install/upgrade is required, and students are welcome. Basic concepts and DASD/minidisk layouts are introduced using diagrams to lay a foundation for each process. Then, the steps for the process are covered at a higher level, with references to further reading. Participants come away confident to approach the z/VM Installation Guide. This session is excellent preparation for those wishing to attend the “z/VM and Virtualization Hands-on Lab”, where they can choose to perform an upgrade installation themselves. This session does not include a live demo, but uses photos of real output to engage with the process.
This session will overview how GDPS, IBM's multi-site application availability solution, integrates key availability technologies such as z/OS, z/VM, Linux, and remote copy technologies with automation to enhance application availability and improve DR for z/OS, VM, and Linux on z. The enhanced GVA, GDPS Virtual Appliance, which runs on LinuxONE systems with z/VM and Linux guests will be highlighted. GDPS offers the state of the art in terms of performance towards continuous availability. Additionally, GDPS offers our clients a way to fulfill their regulatory and business compliance requirements by granting them "insurance" in case of a disaster (i.e., disaster recovery - DR) and providing high availability (HA) as well as ease and continuity of operations (CO).
TLS (Transport Layer Security) can be used in z/VM to establish secure connections. This presentation will cover the What, Why, Where, and How of setting up and using it, while also giving examples. No background of TLS or SSL is required.
