>>> On 8/17/2015 at 12:14 PM, Dana Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there any info available yet on the hardware? Hopefully an official > announcement is coming soon, all the links I've found so far are just > marketing buzzword filled. Is it just a z13 with all IFL's and new colors > in the door panels?
>From what I can tell, the "Emperor" is a z13 with only IFL engines and >modified color scheme. The "Rock Hopper" would be the new business class z13, >with only IFL engines and new color scheme. As always, IBM marketing does >more to confuse the people who need to work with this stuff than anything else. > Has KVM always run on z or is that new today too? KVM has been available on z for a while now. SUSE introduced it as a Technical Preview back in 2012 with SLES11 SP2. I've been giving presentations on it at SHARE for a while now. >From what I've been hearing, IBM has been working with the open source >community to get a few more of the features running on z that have been >available for a long time on x86. It appears their KVM offering also comes >with some monitoring capability, although I haven't seen any details there. As part of the announcements today, SUSE has stated that we will officially support SLES 12 systems running on IBM's KVM hypervisor. I haven't seen anything about Red Hat support as of yet. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
