z/VM Presentation Archive

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 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.

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.

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.

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.