zLinux Operating As a Guest of zOS
A very exciting use of zISX is to operate zLinux as a guest of zOS. As many of IBM's customers, large and small, start to embrace zLinux on the zSeries platform, it is natural for them to consider using zISX. The reasons for doing so are numerous and are listed below. At this point in time, the Russian developers are running zLinux as a guest of zOS. The results are excellent and the first observation is the significant improvement in zLinux performance when running as a guest of zOS.
Benefits of zLinux As a Guest of zOS
- Full zOS Facilities Available
- Resource Manager
- Systems Managed Storage
- Full zOS Networking Capabilities
- zOS I/O Support
- Achieve zOS Security Levels
- Significantly Improved Performance For All Guests
- Greater Than 15 Guest Systems Supported, All Achieving zOS Performance; Number of Guests Correspond to Rules of zOS Architecture
- Simplified and Automated Data Exchange Between zOS and zLinux
- Supports latest Oracle for zLinux level on zSeries hardware and software
zISX is fully supported with technical and Level 1 Support in the US. The development team, which is located in Moscow, backs up this support team. The development team operates a 24 X 7 help desk. Our experience shows that it will take less than 3 days from the time a customer receives the technical information included in this Web site until zISX and the guest zLinux system is operational. This time estimate assumes that zLinux and zOS systems are operational.
A set of key zSeries Business Partners have zISX installed and can help you implement your zLinux-zOS Solution.
Executive Overview