Welcome to nova-zvm’s documentation!

Welcome to nova-zvm driver’s documentation!

IBM Z is a family name used by IBM for all of its mainframe computers. IBM Z are the direct descendants of System/360, announced in 1964, and the System/370 from 1970s, and now includes the IBM System z13, the IBM System z14 and the newer IBM zEnterprise. IBM Z is famous for its high availability and used in government, financial services, retail, manufacturing, and just about every other industry.

z/VM is a hypervisor for the IBM Z platform that provides a highly flexible test and production environment. z/VM offers a base for customers who want to exploit IBM virtualization technology on one of the industry’s best-of-breed server environments, the IBM Z family.

zVM drivers, consist of a set of drivers/plugins for different OpenStack components, enables OpenStack to communicate with z/VM hypervisor to manage z/VM system and virtual machines running on the system.

Overview

• z/VM Introduction
  • z/VM architecture
  • z/VM history
• Topology
  • Generic concepts and components
  • Overall architecture
  • Function Call flow
  • Compare with vmware openstack driver
• Feature Support Matrix
• z/VM cloud connector
  • Introduction
  • Links

Using the driver

• Planning and Requirements
  • z/VM System Requirements
• Configuration

Creating zVM Images

• Image guide
  • Image Requirements
• Active Engine Guide
  • Installation and Configuration of zvmguestconfigure
  • Installation and Configuration of cloud-init

Continuous integration(CI)

• z/VM openstack driver CI
  • openstack 3rd party CI
  • z/VM CI hardware
  • z/VM CI running sample
  • z/VM CI reference and logs

Contributing to the project

• Contributing

Links

• Source: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova-zvm-virt-driver
• Github shadow: https://github.com/openstack/nova-zvm-virt-driver
• Bugs: http://bugs.launchpad.net/nova-zvm-virt-driver
• Gerrit: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/project:openstack/nova-zvm-virt-driver