On VMware you can move a running virtual machine from one ESX machine to
another without the operating systems running on the virtual machine
knowing it.
There are many good ideas from zVM that have been copied by VMware. This
is an example going the other way - zVM is using a VMware idea.
Both VMware and zVM developers will tell you that they don't get ideas
from the other - but as an administrator of both systems I can see what
is happening.
Same thing different names - a minidisk on zVM is a vmdk on VMware. A
vSwitch on VMware is ...
Now zVM is adding vmotion from VMware, so they call it Single System Image.
Alain Benveniste wrote:
I'm not sure what should be understood by "Single System Image" ?
Could you give me a brief explanation of this meaning ?
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Stephen Frazier
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Oklahoma Department of Corrections
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