Last Updated: 24 April 2025

In order to help provide meaningful progression for various roles of z/VM users we have broken the courses into four tracks or roadmaps. Choose a role that resembles your use case as close as possible, and then follow the roadmap courses in the order they are presented.

The roadmaps cover the following z/VM roles:


 

In order to make the content available to all audiences and assure privacy compliance, there is no mechanism to track the progress of the roadmap completion. While you can log in with your IBMid on this site, it will not record your course progression.


 

z/VM education roadmap coverage

Reference the table below to find which videos are contained on the various z/VM education roadmaps.

Video Name z/VM Basic
Education Roadmap
New z/VM System
Programmer Roadmap
z/VM Advanced
Education Roadmap
What is z/VM?

z/VM Overview

z/VM Virtualization Basics

CP and CMS Customization

z/VM SSI Overview

Twelve Pillars of System Management

Introduction to System Administration

Introduction to CMS Pipelines

Introduction to RACF

The Leader of Virtualization

z/VM Installation Overview

Rexx Coding Techniques - Part 1

Rexx Coding Techniques - Part 2

Problem Determination

z/VM Virtual Switch (VSwitch): The Basics

z/VM Introduction to the Directory Maintenance (DirMaint)

z/VM Introduction to Single System Image (SSI)

z/VM LGR and Relocation Domains

z/VM Single System Image (SSI) - Usage Scenarios

z/VM Performance Data Pump - Overview and Demo

z/VM Startup and Shutdown - Best Practices

z/VM CP System Services

What's Going Wrong? LPAR Weights

z/VM Virtual Switch (VSwitch): Advanced Topics

z/VM SSI & LGR: Performance Topics

Adjunct Virtual Machines