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About this document . . . . . . . . . v

Intended audience .

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Conventions and terminology used in this document v

Where to find more information

Additional Publications

How to send your comments to IBM . . ix

If you have a technical problem .

Summary of changes . . . . . . . . . xi

SC24-6194-00, z/VM Version 6 Release 1 .

Chapter 1. About z/VM . . . . . . . . 1

Overview of the Control Program (CP)

Central processing units (CPUs) .

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DASD and minidisks

Temporary minidisks

Virtual disks in storage .

Virtual readers, punches, and printers .

The virtual machine console .

Overview of the CP spool file system .

The user directory

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Overview of the Conversational Monitor System

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Minidisks and the CMS access mode .

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The PROFILE EXEC

The Help system

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The CMS file editor XEDIT .

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Overview of changing files .

SAVE, FILE, QUIT, and QQUIT .

Summary of Linux and z/VM similarities .

Chapter 2. Planning for Linux virtual

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Overview of z/VM capacity planning

Estimating memory and CPU requirements.

Overview of estimating memory and CPU

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Steps for estimating memory and CPU

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Guidelines for estimating the amount of DASD you

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For z/VM paging .

For the Linux file system .

Planning your network

TCP/IP networking options for Linux

Giving Linux virtual servers access to

cryptographic hardware for SSL acceleration .

Planning for user management .

Steps for obtaining documentation and media .

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Chapter 3. Changing the system

configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Overview of the SYSTEM CONFIG file .

Steps for adding a paging, spooling, or user volume 35

Steps for releasing the primary parm disk .

Steps for updating the CP-owned volume list .

Steps for updating the default system identifier .

Steps for updating the user volume list .

Steps for setting up warm start, clearing tdisk space,

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Steps for controlling access to devices at startup .

Steps for defining a virtual switch .

Steps for setting addresses for consoles .

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Chapter 4. Configuring the Directory

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Maintenance Facility . . . . . . . . . 51

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Steps for enabling DirMaint .

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Steps for changing the passwords for DirMaint

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Steps for configuring DirMaint .

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Steps for authorizing users to perform DirMaint

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Steps for controlling where DirMaint creates

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Steps for copying the current USER DIRECT file .

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Steps for putting the configuration into production

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and starting DirMaint .

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Steps for automatically starting DIRMAINT

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Steps for testing DirMaint

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Step for modifying the OPERATOR's directory entry 60

Chapter 5. Configuring TCP/IP

Setting up the production TCP/IP .

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Steps for automatically starting TCP/IP .

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Chapter 6. Restarting z/VM and

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checking the system . . . . . . . . . 67

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Steps for restarting z/VM

Steps for checking paging and spooling space .

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Step for checking the system identifier .

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Step for checking the user volume list

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Steps for checking features .

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Step for checking offline devices .

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Step for checking the virtual switch .

Step for checking character defaults .

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Steps for checking TCP/IP .

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Chapter 7. Creating your first Linux

virtual machine and installing Linux . . 71

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