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Welcome to nova-dpm's documentation!
====================================
On IBM z Systems and IBM LinuxOne machines, certain workloads run better in a
partition of the firmware-based PR/SM (Processor Resource/System Manager)
hypervisor, than in a virtual machine of a software hypervisor such as KVM or
z/VM.
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 <http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova>`_
project.
* z/VM is supported by the z/VM driver in the
`openstack/nova-zvm-virt-driver <http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova-zvm-virt-driver>`_
project.
Overview
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.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
history
topology
support-matrix
storage
Using the driver
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.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
getting_started
installation
configuration
guest_image_tools
Creating DPM Images
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.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
image/rhel7/rhel7_image
Contributing to the project
===========================
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
contributing
devref
Specs
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.. toctree::
:glob:
:maxdepth: 2
specs/index
Links
=====
* 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>`_