Virtualization on System z

Virtualization on System z offers industry-leading and large-scale proven1 IT optimization capabilities to drive down the costs of managing and maintaining the tremendous proliferation of servers in today’s technology infrastructures.

System z provides virtualization together with an extensive set of service management capabilities, including automated performance optimization and problem management, to help lower and control costs.

Virtualization Highlights

• Large-scale consolidation onto a single System z server – host more servers per core
• Reduce floor space requirements, drive down software license fees and save up to 75% on energy costs compared to virtualized x86 alternatives
• Virtualize and share all resources: processor, memory, network, I/O, cryptographic features
• Virtualization combined with protection of sensitive data and improved business continuity / disaster recovery

The new zEnterprise System allows IT organizations to consolidate multiple systems and software stacks on a single platform, deploying an integrated hardware platform that brings System z and distributed technologies together.

The new IBM zEnterprise 196 (z196) offers dramatic improvements for IT optimization: up to 80 client-configurable cores usable for virtualization on the hardware level (LPAR2), extensions to the I/O infrastructure, and an enhanced memory infrastructure, which can help clients "do more with less". The use of integrated blades offers an added dimension for workload optimization.

The IBM zEnterprise Unified Resource Manager brings end-to-end management to this heterogeneous virtual environment, which provides energy monitoring and management, goal-oriented policy management, increased security, virtual networking, and data management, consolidated in a single interface that can be tied to business requirements.

The leading virtualization capability makes System z an obvious choice for cloud computing. Cloud computing on System z is massively scalable, offers a superior user experience, and is characterized by great economics.