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IBM System z servers running Linux offer an attractive foundation to help you simplify your IT infrastructure. While Linux on System z may already play a key role in your server consolidation strategy, the infrastructure simplification capabilities of Linux and your IBM mainframe are extended by the IBM Virtualization Engine™ and Infrastructure Services to run and manage a unified IT infrastructure.


Make Linux the hub for managing your cross-system IT resources

Linux on mainframe servers has taken advantage of the virtualization technologies in System z and z/VM for many years, bringing customers the benefits of over 35 years of virtualization experience.

With the components of the IBM Virtualization Engine and Infrastructure Services for Linux on System z9 and zSeries, virtualization "best practices" can be extended into distributed environments.

The IBM Virtualization Engine and Infrastructure Services provide a suite of management and performance services and components that provide a comprehensive access and view of your resources.

The IBM Virtualization Engine and Infrastructure Services components can make day to day management of your IT environment easier to accomplish by reducing the skills needed to perform tasks such as end-to-end management, Linux server provisioning, and mapping of business processes to their required resources.

The IBM Virtualization Engine and Infrastructure Services can help you simplify your IT infrastructure by making it easier to manage your heterogeneous IT assets with Linux on System z.


For more information refer to the data sheet: IBM Virtualization Engine and Infrastructure Services for Linux on System z9 and zSeries. (PDF, 65KB)



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