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Copyright 2016 IBM
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All Rights Reserved.
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Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
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not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
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a copy of the License at
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http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
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WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
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License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
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under the License.
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Welcome to nova-dpm's documentation!
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========================================
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This project will be used for development of nova driver for supporting IBM System z PR/SM hypervisor in DPM mode as a valid nova hypervisor platform.
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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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Nova-DPM Overview
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=====================
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Contents:
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 2
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readme
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installation
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usage
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contributing
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