Introduction to Virtualization

Virtualization has emerged relatively recently in the mainstream as an important technology, though it has been available on IBM mainframes for more than 40 years. Through virtualization, servers, storage, and other computer resources can be made more flexible, adaptable, and useful. This presentation introduces the basic concepts, benefits, and alterative implementations of server virtualization and then explores the specific capabilities that hypervisors provide on System z.

Tracks: Dark Side of Virtualization, z/VM Systems Programming and zNextGen