I'm not going to try an answer all the questions, however hopefully I can put some context into how SCO (or IBM Cloud Orchestrator) and WAVE complement each other or how they can be used to serve independent purposes.
WAVE does a lot more then just provisioning. If you have SCO, you would most likely use that for provisioning over WAVE. - With the WAVE "hooks" in your golden Linux images, clones will be visible and accessible from WAVE. - Simplified z/VM GUI view of even your virtual networks helps ease system admin requirements and I like "projects" too. - Projects create a great way to host and present IaaS to lines of businesses. - Wave also presents performance dashboards. It is limited to z/VM with Linux. SCO really completes all the cloud requirements, and is not limited to z/VM with Linux. - Beyond the self service portal, it includes virtual machine life cycle management, patch management, charge back etc. Here's a SCO video that includes use of endpoint patch management for a deployed guest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D18gEZcfgTU Hopefully this is helpful. Thanks and Best Regards, Kurt Acker IBM Smarter Planet, Smarter Data Centers Virtualization and Enterprise System Management Technologies ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
