Wave for IBM Z

Simplify Mainframe Virtualization Management

 

Wave for IBM Z® simplifies and accelerates the management and daily administration of highly virtualized z/VM and Linux server environments on IBM Z® Systems and IBM LinuxONE.

 

Wave for IBM Z

 

Wave for IBM Z® simplifies and accelerates the management and daily administration of highly virtualized z/VM and Linux server environments on IBM Z® Systems and IBM LinuxONE.

 

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Challenge

The Challenge – Managing Linux Virtualization on the Mainframe

IBM Z and IBM LinuxOne are powerful, reliable and economical platforms for highly virtualized Linux environments. Significant z/VM skills are required, however, to monitor, manage and provision Linux instances and resources. These skills often limited to a select few in the organization. Even when z/VM skills are ample, productivity in a highly virtualized environment may be challenged by limitations of the tools themselves. The z/VM skills-productivity-gap results in less than optimal turnaround times for identifying, diagnosing and resolving issues, and for provisioning Linux instances and resources. There is a need for solutions to simplify the operation of these virtualized environments. Log-On Wave for IBM Z® (Wave) is such a solution.

Simplify Administrative Tasks

Improve Quality and Productivity

Powerful Visual Representation of Environment

Quick and Easy Provisioning of Servers and Resources

View Overall Performance at a Glance

Solution

Wave for Linux Administration Productivity on the Mainframe

Log-On Wave for IBM Z is a productivity solution for highly virtualized Linux environments. With its powerful and intuitive user interface, Wave shields the complexity of z/VM and simplifies the configuration, operation and management of Linux instances and resources.

From a single intuitive Wave screen, you can easily manage complex IBM Z Linux infrastructures. Staff less skilled in z/VM can take the lead. You can automate repetitive tasks with a few clicks, improving quality and optimizing productivity. You can respond faster to business requests for new instances and additional resource. You can quickly identify, diagnose and resolve performance and operational issues as they emerge.

Benefits and Savings
  • Simplify administrative tasks with intelligent visualization and management.
  • Improve quality and productivity through automation.
  • Help less experienced staff manage complex z/VM and Linux environments.
  • View overall performance at a single glance.
  • Quickly and easily clone Linux guests on z/VM, provision Linux servers and manage virtual resources.
  • Flexible reporting and drill down.
Features and Capabilities

Intuitive and Intelligent Visualization

  • Automatically build a visual representation of the environment through agentless discovery.
  • Visually group and filter managed resources.
  • Drag, drop and draw connections between resources.
  • Meaningful icons present vital system information.
  • Messages can be attached to managed resources to advise of important information.
  • Perform on demand management reporting with customized data.

Easy Provisioning

  • Supports Linux Bare Metal Install.
  • Provision guests, networks, and storage.
  • Capture and clone virtual servers across all your LPARs and CPCs.
  • Activate and deactivate z/VM guests.
  • Delegate storage management and provisioning to z/VM and Linux guests.
  • Create and configure virtual switches (VSWITCHes) and Guest LANs.
  • Run shell scripts or REXX™ EXECs from the user interface for advanced provisioning.

Management and Configuration Productivity

  • Single dashboard to manage workloads across all CPCs and LPARs.
  • Monitor z/VM and Linux guest performance.
  • Automatically discover and manage z/VM resource across the enterprise.
  • Perform Live Guest Relocation with only a few mouse clicks.
  • Define and connect network devices such as VSWITCHes and guest LANs.
  • Manage FCP SCSI-only environments using EDEVs.

Administration

  • Administer z/VM guests, storage, networks and connections.
  • Role-based management.
  • Set security scope and permissions.
  • Manage guest account assignments.
  • Manage resources and guests using meaningful tags and user-defined names.
  • Comprehensive logging capabilities. Use logs for audit purposes.
  • Integrate with your LDAP configuration.

 

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