Managing Linux Guests Using IBM Director and z/VM Center

IBM Director is a comprehensive systems manager designed for use across the full IBM Systems product family. An integrated, easy-to-use suite of tools, IBM Director provides clients with flexible systems-management abilities to help maximize system availability and lower IT costs. With IBM Director, IT administrators can view and track the hardware configuration of remote systems and monitor the component performance of processors, disks, and memory.

The IBM z/VM Center extension for IBM Director allows you to manage and clone Linux guests running on z/VM. This IBM Redpaper provides complete instructions for the z/VM System Programmer on how to enable a z/VM Version 5.2 system to be managed using IBM Director and the z/VM Center extension and how to use z/VM Center to deploy and manage Linux guests.

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Publish Date
01 May 2007

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Author(s)

Robert J Brenneman is a Software Engineer at the Test and Integration Center for Linux in Poughkeepsie, NY. He works in Systems and Technology Group testing software for Linux on System z. He has a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Auburn University and has worked for IBM since 2000.

• Robert J Brenneman

David Watts is a Consulting IT Specialist at the IBM ITSO Center in Raleigh. He manages residencies and produces IBM Redbooks publications on hardware and software topics related to IBM System x and BladeCenter servers and associated client platforms. He has authored over 80 books, papers, and technotes. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Queensland (Australia) and has worked for IBM for over 15 years. He is an IBM Certified IT Specialist.

• David Watts

IBM Form Number
REDP-4312-00

Number of pages

114