Installing, Configuring and Servicing z/VM for Linux Guests

Prerequisites:

Understand basic data processing concepts
Understand software concepts
Describe and be able to use S/390 computer hardware and information.

Course Description:

Learn to perform a basic I/O configuration, initial install, configure the CP component, define and save segment, configure TCPIP, and apply service to your z/VM system for the support of Linux guest operating systems.
Audience.

This course is intended to be taken by S/390 system programmers new to z/VM or ESA/VM or system programmers who will be responsible for the implementation of a z/VM system for the support of Linux Guest System.

Objectives:

You will learn how to install and tailor z/VM and how to do an initial installation, tailor your system files to match your installation, use the Control Program (CP) configurability support, and build the CP nucleus as a module. Learn how to update your CP system directory, define and save CMS, and regenerate your saved segments using Virtual Machine Serviceability Enhancements Staged/Extended (VMSES/E). Become familiar with the TCP/IP feature of z/VM and how it connects to the intranet or internet and to guest Linux systems. Learn to apply corrective service to a z/VM system using the native VMSES/E commands and using the SERVICE and PUT2PROD EXEC. Use the VMFINFO command to determine if a PTF has been applied.
Use the z/VM system editor

• Plan the initial installation of your z/VM system
• Modify the system configuration files
• Generate new entries in the system directory
• Configure the IOCP/ HCD / HCM definitions
• IPL and manage the z/VM system
• Configure the TCP/IP service machines
• Discuss system management commands
• Construct Saved Systems and Saved Segments
• Apply Service Processes to the z/VM system
• Execute the VM Service Commands for regeneration of the system
• Planning and logging local modifications to your z/VM system.

This course includes the following modules:

z/VM overview

• Installing z/VM
• z/VM user directory
• VMSES/E overview
• Tailoring CP
• Tailoring the CP system definition files
• Dynamically defining devices
• Defining devices to the hardware (IOCP, HCD, HCM)
• z/VM saved segments
• Setup the TCP/IP service machines for connection to the internet
• Apply corrective service to your z/VM system using the Service Exec
• Apply corrective service to your z/VM system using native VMSES/E commands
• Understand the process of performing local modifications.