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nova-dpm
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OpenStack Nova driver and agent for IBM z Systems PR/SM hypervisor in DPM mode
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On IBM z Systems, certain workloads run better in a logical partition than
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in a virtual machine of a software hypervisor such as KVM or z/VM.
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The IBM z13 system (and IBM LinuxONE) introduced a new administrative mode
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named "Dynamic Partition Manager" (DPM) that allows for managing the
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firmware-based logical partition hypervisor (PR/SM) with the dynamic
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capabilities known from software-based hypervisors.
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These new dynamic capabilities provided by the DPM mode enables PR/SM to
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act as a hypervisor managed by OpenStack using Nova.
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This project supports adding the PR/SM hypervisor in DPM mode as a
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Nova hypervisor platform, by implementing a new Nova driver.
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The other hypervisors on z Systems such as z/VM and KVM are already
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supported by OpenStack via Nova drivers. These drivers will continue to be
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supported. Adding support for PR/SM DPM allows addressing customers that
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need or want to run their workloads in logical partitions, and provides the
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advantage for them of using OpenStack as a uniform, standard, cloud
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management platform on z Systems.
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* Free software: Apache license
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* Documentation: http://nova-dpm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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* Source: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova-dpm
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* Bugs: http://bugs.launchpad.net/nova-dpm
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