Virtual Linux servers under z/VM: security, performance, and administration issues

  • Authors:

  • D. Turk;J. Bausch

  • Affiliations:

  • Computer Information Systems Department, 154 Rockwell Hall, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado;Threat & Vulnerability Management, PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, 800 Market Street, St. Louis, Missouri

  • Venue:
  • IBM Systems Journal
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this paper we describe our experience at Colorado State University running hundreds of virtual Linux® servers on an IBM S/390® mainframe with the z/VM® operating system and the way we solved the security, performance, and administration problems that were encountered.