Glossary

ECKD - Enhanced Count Key Data

FC - Fibre Channel

MacVTap -

UTF-8 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8

Live Migration - Same as Virtual Machine Relocation on z/VM, or vSphere vMotion on VMWare. KVM for IBM z supports live migration of virtual servers between z Systems and LinuxONE servers.

KVM - Kernel-based virtual machine

HVM -

zHPM - z Systems Hypervisor Performance Manager

Primary Bridge -

VLAN - Virtual LAN. IEEE standart 802.1Q - http://www.ieee802.org/1/pages/802.1Q.html

VxLAN - Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network - it is a standard to the IETF, documented in RFC 7348 - https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7348

GRE tunneling - From Wikipedia - Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) is a tunneling protocol developed by Cisco Systems that can encapsulate a wide variety of network layer protocols inside virtual point-to-point links over an Internet Protocol network. http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/tech/ip/ip-tunneling/tech-configuration-examples-list.html

https://supportforums.cisco.com/document/13576/how-configure-gre-tunnel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_Routing_Encapsulation

Bonding or Bond = IEEE 802.3ad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_aggregation

Virtualization Shell - virsh

Virtual Machine Manager - virt-manager

Libvirt - http://libvirt.org/. Libvirt is

• A toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes), see our project goals for details.
• Free software available under the GNU Lesser General Public License.
• A long term stable C API, and much more