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z/VM
z/VM builds upon the solid Virtual Machine (VM) prod-
uct and offers a new base for customers who want to
exploit IBM VM technology, including 64-bit address-
ing on the industry’s best-of-breed server platform, the
IBM
^ zSeries
™
, as well as the IBM S/390 Paral-
lel Enterprise Server, Generation 5 and 6, and the
Multiprise 3000.
z/VM V4
™
offers an ideal platform for consolidating
Linux workloads on a single S/390 or zSeries 900
server. Running Linux as a guest of z/VM enables you
to run many Linux images. The enhanced VM Control
Program (CP) is designed to improve performance of
networking devices and virtual storage management
for Linux guests. Significant changes have been made
to the packaging of z/VM.
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VM/ESA
VM/ESA Version 2 solidifies VM’s position as an enter-
prise server. Beginning with Release 2, VM/ESA is Year
2000 ready and provides the critical support for the
Year 2000 required by customers to help ensure that
their VM systems will function correctly through the
change of century.
Your VM system has consistently delivered the benefits
of robust, centralized computing to your organization.
This flexible, high-performance server platform has
been enhanced to enable more network-based com-
puting solutions and provides new function and value
for VM/ESA customers with VM/ESA Version 2 Releases
3 and 4.
Benefits
• Support for high-bandwidth networks
• Improved SMTP server performance and support for
service extensions
• NFS access to VM’s Shared File System and POSIX
Byte File System
• Functional and usability improvements to the FTP
server
• Major upgrade to the function and reliability of the
RouteD server
• Security improvements with enhanced TCP/IP user au-
thorization
• Native Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) support
• IBM DATABASE 2
™
(DB2) Server for VSE and VM, Version
6 Release 1 support
• Enhancement of the Network File System (NFS) fea-
ture of TCP/IP to NFS Version 3
• DB2 Forms support for VM and VSE
• OS/390 Parallel Sysplex
®
Testing support