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Course description: Installing, Configuring, and Servicing z/VM (ILO)

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Course code MZ062 Skill level Intermediate
Duration 5.0 days Delivery type Instructor Led - Online Training
(Hands-on labs)
Course type Public or Private on-site    
Public price USD $3,056.00 plus tax    

NOTE: THIS IS AN INSTRUCTOR-LED ONLINE COURSE. PLEASE DO NOT MAKE TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS FOR THIS COURSE.

This course introduces the system programmer to the tasks required to support a z/VM operating system. It provides an overview of the processes required to install z/VM and perform the required tailoring steps to support guest operating system virtual machines and CMS users. You will leave the course with the knowledge to perform the steps to add guest systems and other virtual machines to the z/VM system, to define and create saved segments, to apply service to the z/VM system, and to define a minimal TCP/IP configuration.

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Training Paths that reference this course are:

  • z/VM and Linux on System z

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Special note

IBM Education Advantage Program eligibility:

  • Yes - IBM Education Pack - online account

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Audience

This intermediate course is for IT professionals who will be responsible for the support of guests and other virtual machines running in the z/VM environment. It assumes that these persons will have little or no experience in the z/VM environment.

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Prerequisites

There are no Prerequisites for this course

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Skills taught

  • Perform normal editing processes in the z/VM environment
  • Describe the process of running guests under z/VM
  • Define virtual machines to z/VM and reload the directory
  • Describe the process of defining real devices to the z/VM system
  • Modify the Control Program of z/VM
  • Define and save saved segments
  • Describe how TCP/IP works in z/VM
  • Customize the TCP/IP files on z/VM
  • Apply service to the z/VM system

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Course outline

Day 1

  • Welcome
  • Unit 1: z/VM overview
  • Exercise 1: z/VM labs exercise logon overview
  • Exercise 2: System logon, IPLing the guest, and XEDIT
  • Unit 2: Installation: Part one

Day 2

  • Unit 2: Installation: Part two
  • Unit 3: Directory
  • Exercise 3: z/VM directory maintenance
  • Unit 4: CP system configuration: Part one

Day 3

  • Unit 4: CP system configuration: Part two
  • Exercise 4: CP system configuration
  • Unit 5: TCP/IP configuration

Day 4

  • Exercise 5: z/VM TCP/IP configuration, tailoring, and testing
  • Unit 6: Saved segments
  • Exercise 6: z/VM saved segments

Day 5

  • Unit 7: VMSES/E
  • Exercise 7: Servicing z/VM (VMSES/E)
  • Unit 8: Introduction to performance

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