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.
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.
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.
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.