This project provides a Nova virtualization driver for the PR/SM hypervisor of IBM z Systems and IBM LinuxOne machines that are in the DPM (Dynamic Partition Manager) administrative mode.
The DPM mode enables dynamic capabilities of the firmware-based PR/SM hypervisor that are usually known from software-based hypervisors, such as creation, deletion and modification of partitions (i.e. virtual machines) and virtual devices within these partitions, and dynamic assignment of these virtual devices to physical I/O adapters.
The z/VM and KVM hypervisors on z Systems and LinuxONE machines are supported by separate Nova virtualization drivers:
- KVM is supported by the standard libvirt/KVM driver in the openstack/nova project.
- z/VM is supported by the z/VM driver in the openstack/nova-zvm-virt-driver project.
- Documentation: http://nova-dpm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- Source: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova-dpm
- Github shadow: https://github.com/openstack/nova-dpm
- Bugs: http://bugs.launchpad.net/nova-dpm
- Gerrit: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/project:openstack/nova-dpm
- License: Apache 2.0 license