On Thursday, 07/22/2010 at 11:34 EDT, Barton Robinson <bar...@vm1.velocity-software.com> wrote: > So the biggest announcement of the year, i'm on my second pot of coffee, > and there's still only one post about this? Is this a non-event?
Kind of hard to talk about the enhancements in support of zEnterprise until folks get up to speed on it, but here are the pending z/VM enhancements. Of interest for zEnterprise (6.1 only): - Support of internal management network and internal customer data network - Support for management using the Universal Resource Manager as a member of an ensemble Of interest to everyone (5.4 and 6.1, except as noted): - Guests can now use secure-key CPACF functions - CP can do XRC timestamping of I/O. This includes support of STP for XRC purposes. - Improved HyperSwap capabilities - "Uplink" support in VSWITCH. A guest can be defined as the uplink instead of an OSA. A powerful enhancement to enable z-resident firewalls in a VSWITCH configuration, and an important component of the support for the zEnterprise System. - Ability to turn off CP memory management 'reorder' processing - Ability to coalescence empty page frames when needed - Improved SSL server performance and capacity (watch for Red Alert - migration required) - SSL upgrade to use z/OS 1.11 version of System SSL (6.1 only) and support for FIPS (not yet certified) Statements of Direction: - Single System Image with Live Linux Guest Relocation - Common Criteria certification of z/VM 6.1 - Withdrawal of VM TCP/IP DNS server - Withdrawal of the RESOURCE option on VMFINS Enhancements will be delivered September through December. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
