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z/VM Introduction
This document gives basic information about z/VM itself and some history about z/VM, for more detailed information, please refer to z/VM website http://www.vm.ibm.com
z/VM architecture
z/VM provides a highly secure and scalable enterprise cloud infrastructure and an environment for efficiently running multiple diverse critical applications on IBM z Systems and IBM LinuxONE with support for more virtual servers than any other platform in a single footprint. These z/VM virtual servers can run Linux, z/OS and more.
Linux on IBM z Systems and IBM LinuxONE offer a uniquely powerful, high-performance solution. Supreme efficiency for optimized workload deployment, innovative system management with IBM Wave for z/VM, and the legendary performance and scalability of z/VM come together to form a foundation for your Linux applications that is simple, cost-effective, efficient, and secure.
z/VM history
z/VM has over 45 years history and it's keep being used in wide industries such as banking, securities, insurence etc. Following picture describe the evolution until 2011 and after that z/VM 6.3 , 6.4 has a set of new features to fit for old and new customers and openstack enablement is also introduced.
