That Company was VM/CMS Unlimited, IIRC. Regards, Richard Schuh
> -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of David Boyes > Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 1:43 PM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: z/VM 6.1 G.A. targeted for this Friday, Oct 23 > > On 10/22/09 4:03 PM, "Stephen Frazier" <ste...@doc.state.ok.us> wrote: > > > 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. > > It's a little older than that. In the VM/SP and HPO days, > there was a VM/SSI add-on from a 3rd party company. It > implemented a truly enormous number of CP mods to allow > virtual machines to move between a group of physical systems > with the SWITCH command. Worked extremely well, till VM/XA > came along. >
