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Welcome to nova-zvm's documentation!
Welcome to nova-zvm driver's documentation!
System z is a family name used by IBM for all of its mainframe computers. IBM System z are the direct descendants of System/360, announced in 1964, and the System/370 from 1970s, and now includes the IBM System z9, the IBM System z10 and the newer IBM zEnterprise. System z is famous for its high availability and used in government, financial services, retail, manufacturing, and just about every other industry.
z/VM is a hypervisor for the IBM System z platform that provides a highly flexible test and production environment. z/VM offers a base for customers who want to exploit IBM virtualization technology on one of the industry's best-of- breed server environments, the IBM System z family.
zVM drivers, consist of a set of drivers/plugins for different OpenStack components, enables OpenStack to communicate with z/VM hypervisor to manage z/VM system and virtual machines running on the system.
Overview
topology support-matrix cloudlib4zvm
Using the driver
planning configurations
Creating zVM Images
imageguide activeengine
Continuous integration(CI)
ci
Contributing to the project
contributing