VM Performance Documents

As of 03 July 2007

VM Performance Manual

This book, which contains performance guidelines and tuning information, is part of the VM Library.

VM Level	Order Number
z/VM V5.3.0	SC24-6109-03
z/VM V5.2.0	SC24-6109-01
z/VM V5.1.0	SC24-6109-00
z/VM V4.4.0	SC24-5999-03
z/VM V3.1.0	SC24-5952-00

VM Performance Reports

The performance reports contain performance measurement results. There is one combined report for z/VM and a separate report for each VM/ESA release.
z/VM Performance Report
VM/ESA Performance Reports

IBM z/VM performance products documentation
z/VM: Performance Toolkit for VM (SC24-2062)
z/VM Performance Reporting Facility (VMPRF) Guide and Reference - SC24-6027
z/VM RealTime Monitor Function Level 410 Manual - SC24-6028-02

Monitor Record Layouts
CP Monitor Records

Monitor Appldata
Application Data Registration

White Papers, RedBooks, etc.

	Old Redbook - VM/ESA Storage Management with Tuning Guidelines - some of this redbook went out of date with z/VM, but there is still some good background material in this book.
	What's new in Performance Toolkit for VM in z/VM V5.1
	Performance Toolkit for VM

Additional performance documents

	Large System Performance Reference Page Processor capacity sizing information.
	Processor Reference Page- includes such things as SRM constants and processor version id codes.
	LPAR vs. VM Preferred Guests While not strictly a performance presentation, this paper by Romney White covers the differences between LPAR and VM Multiple Preferred Guest support.
	Performance Related Presentations. A collection of Bill Bitner's presentations from SHARE, WAVV, and IBM technical conferences.
	The Economic Value of Rapid Response Time. A wonderful paper that details the importance of good response time. Located on the Canadian S/390 page.
	Large Systems Performance Reference (processor sizings) - SC28-1187-02