z/VM Virtual Server Deployment window

This topic provides information on the z/VM Virtual Server Deployment window, its menu, panes and navigation trees.

Use the z/VM Virtual Server Deployment window to manage z/VM virtual servers. To a z/VM system, a z/VM virtual server is a z/VM Center controlled guest virtual machine.

You also use the z/VM Virtual Server Deployment window to manage templates. There are templates for creating new z/VM virtual servers and templates for creating operating system instances on z/VM virtual servers.

To deploy a new z/VM virtual server, including an operating system installed on it, you first use a virtual server template to create a new instance of a z/VM virtual server. You then use an operating system template to create an operating systems instance in your new z/VM virtual server.

You can delete a z/VM virtual server that is no longer needed to free all resources that it had utilized (for example disk space, memory, and processor capacity) for redeployment.

Panes and resource trees

The Virtual Server Deployment window has three panes:
z/VM System resource tree
The z/VM System resource tree includes the z/VM system that hosts your z/VM virtual servers, the existing z/VM virtual servers, and the operating system instances that have been installed in each z/VM virtual server.

Expand the z/VM Virtual Servers node to display all z/VM virtual servers on your z/VM system. Below each z/VM virtual server node there is an Operating Systems node. If z/VM Center is aware of an operating system instance that has been installed on the z/VM virtual server, there is a node for the operating system instances below the Operating Systems node.

Provisioning Resources tree
The Provisioning Resources tree contains the available z/VM virtual server templates, operating system templates, and disk pools.

Expand the Virtual Server Templates node to display all virtual server templates. Expand the Operating System Templates node to display all operating system templates. Expand the Disk Pools node to display all z/VM disk pools that you can use to satisfy the disk storage requirements of your z/VM virtual servers and templates.

Right pane
There are numerous right panes available, only one of which is displayed at any one time. Which of the right panes is displayed depends on the resource you have selected in the z/VM System resource tree or in the Provisioning Resources tree.

For a specific resource instance, the pane contains instance-specific data, a Refresh, and a Save button. Save allows you to save any configuration changes you make. Refresh updates the pane content with the current data.

For most of the container elements that group resource instances, the content area lists the contained resource instances and provides a New button that allows you to add a new instance to the container.

Menus

The following list describes all menu items that are included in the menu bar of the Virtual Server Deployment window. Depending on the type and status of the resource that has been selected in the resource trees in the left pane, individual menu items may or may not be selectable.
Action
Tip: You can display all Action menu items that are relevant to a particular resource by first selecting and then right-clicking the resource in a resource tree.
New
Creates a new template, a new z/VM virtual server, or an operating system instance in a z/VM virtual server.
Refresh
Refreshes information for the item that has been selected in the resource tree. With Refresh you can discard any configuration changes that you have not already saved.
Save
Saves any changes made to the data displayed in the right pane. Changes take effect when you save them.
Delete
Deletes a template or a z/VM virtual server.
Copy
Copies a z/VM virtual server template.
Activate
Starts a z/VM virtual server. If z/VM Center is aware of an operating system on the z/VM virtual server, Activate also boots this operating system.
Deactivate
Stops a z/VM virtual server. If applicable, Deactivate gracefully shuts down the operating system. If the shutdown is not completed within a given time interval, the operating system is stopped by force.
Be sure that the time interval is set such as to allow for a regular shutdown for a functioning operating system. You can query this time interval on z/VM by issuing the QUERY SIGNAL SHUTDOWN control program command. You can use the SET SIGNAL SHUTDOWN command to change the time interval, if necessary. See z/VM® CP Command and Utility Reference, SC24-6081, for details.

Register Operating System
Enables z/VM Center to work with an operating system instance that has been installed outside z/VM Center.
Re-Register Operating System
Permits updates to the configuration data that z/VM Center has about an operating system instance, for example, to reflect changes that have been applied to an operating system instance outside z/VM Center.
De-Register Operating System
Removes all knowledge that z/VM Center has on an operating system instance.
Exit
Ends the Virtual Server Deployment task.
Edit
The Edit menu items can be used for editing text in read-write fields in the right pane.
Cut
Deletes any highlighted text and saves it to the clipboard.
Copy
Copies any highlighted text to the clipboard.
Paste
Inserts text from the clipboard.
Help
Virtual Server Deployment
Displays help information on the Virtual Server Deployment task.
About
Displays version and copyright information on z/VM Center.
Index
Displays the IBM Director help index.
相關工作
Starting the Virtual Server Deployment task
相關參考
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