z/VM Presentation Archive

This presentation highlights the performance improvements of IBM z/VM 7.2 in the first quarter of 2021. The z/VM continuous delivery model introduced several new function APARs since the last performance update, and this presentation highlights the changes and improvements.

This presentation highlights the performance improvements of IBM z/VM 7.1 on the z14. Detailed charts outline the z/VM 7.1 regression performance testing. With the new z/VM continuous delivery model, little new function was introduced in z/VM 7.1. However, the presentation highlights major performance improvements for z/VM dumps. Further information on performance APARs, various small fixes, monitor record changes, and Performance Toolkit improvements are also cited.

Version 7 of z/VM started the era of a two-year release cadence. z/VM 7.2 is the second release in this era. This presentation will look at what is in the base of z/VM 7.2 as well as all the enhancements that have shipped. We'll look at both the value of these enhancements, but also cover some of the implementation requirements for them.

z/VM 7.1 is the first release in a new release cadence. This session starts with a high-level tour of the overall continuous delivery strategy and release cadence; and then begins a tour of five value areas and the recent enhancements in each of those areas. You will hear about things such as encrypted paging, greater scalability, and RAS enhancements. This presentation focuses on the business value of z/VM and its enhancements and other planning information. There is a companion presentation called "Leveraging the Newest Capability in z/VM" which goes into implementation details for the enhancements discussed here.

This 12-minute video will give you a brief overview of z/VM 7.1 from the April 10, 2018 preview announcement along with a description of the new continuous delivery strategy for z/VM. z/VM 7.1 will be the first of a cadence of z/VM releases. There is also a PDF of charts with speaker notes.

This presentation will take a high level view of the new z/VM 6.4 release that became Generally Available on November 11, 2016. It was a release born from customer feedback and with that, each customer should find some significant value in the release. We'll discuss items such as HyperPAV for z/VM ECKD paging, 2TB real memory support, improved SCSI management, a new CMS Pipelines library, and much more.

z/VM 6.4 was generally available on November 11, 2016 and brought a lot of new capability to the z/VM environment. This presentation reviews some of the key changes in the release. First we'll look at your existing system and discuss what will be different when you go to z/VM 6.4. Next we'll look at what you should change prior to IPLing z/VM 6.4, things like expanded storage or changes for HyperPAV paging. We'll wrap things up with a discussion of how you exploit some of the new features after you are running z/VM 6.4.

This short document/presentation is meant to help justify why customers should move to the most current z/VM Release. It is a set of questions describing potential problems or challenges, and maps those questions to solutions or enhancements in z/VM 6.4 that address them.

This presentation highlights the performance improvements of IBM z/VM 6.4 on the z14. Detailed charts outline the z/VM 6.4 regression performance testing, and the performance of function added to the 6.4 release, which includes the new function in the base release, and the continuous delivery enhancements. Further information on the performance APARs, various small fixes, monitor record changes, and Performance Toolkit improvements are also cited.

z/VM 6.4 was released in November 2016. In addition to many enhancements provided in the base release, several additional enhancements were made available using z/VM's continuous delivery strategy. This presentation includes general information about z/VM 6.4, including installation and migration tips as well as technical information you need to know to take advantage of much of the new capability that is available.

z/VM 7.1 was released in September 2018. With z/VM's continuous delivery strategy, most new function is now being delivered as New Function APARs. The "z/VM Platform Update" covered the business value of the newest enhancements to z/VM; in this session we'll cover technical information that you need to take advantage of the newest enhancements that are available in z/VM 7.1.