MVS (redirect from Multiple Virtual Storage)
Multiple Virtual Storage, more commonly called MVS, is the most commonly used operating system on the System/370, System/390 and IBM Z IBM mainframe computers...
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and Release 2 (MVS) operating systems, later used throughout the Multiple Virtual Storage (MVS) architecture and now in z/OS. Originally a record-oriented...
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In computer science, storage virtualization is "the process of presenting a logical view of the physical storage resources to" a host computer system...
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In computing, virtual memory, or virtual storage, is a memory management technique that provides an "idealized abstraction of the storage resources that...
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VSAN (redirect from Virtual storage area network)
A virtual storage area network (virtual SAN, VSAN or vSAN) is a logical representation of a physical storage area network (SAN). A VSAN abstracts the storage-related...
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which the kernel allows the existence of multiple isolated user-space instances. The usual goal of virtualization is to centralize administrative tasks while...
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run various operating systems. Virtualization emulates the hardware environment of its host architecture, allowing multiple OSes to run unmodified and in...
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which can be used as a shared storage for guest machines. There is also an independent tool available for rebalancing virtual machines and containers between...
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one direct access storage device. Although OS/360 itself was discontinued, successor operating systems, including the virtual storage MVS and the 64-bit...
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IBM System/370 (redirect from Operating System/Virtual Storage 2)
MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage) and planned to be available 20 months later (at the end of March 1974), and VM/370 – the re-implemented CP/CMS Virtual storage...
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Single Virtual Storage (SVS). In 1974 IBM announced release 2.0; that release and all subsequent releases became known as Multiple Virtual Storage (MVS)...
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In computing, a virtual machine (VM) is the virtualization or emulation of a computer system. Virtual machines are based on computer architectures and...
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Disk image (redirect from Virtual disc emulator)
A disk image is a snapshot of a storage device's content – typically stored in a file on another storage device. Traditionally, a disk image was relatively...
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a network, typically the Internet. The physical storage spans multiple servers (sometimes in multiple locations), and the physical environment is typically...
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Memory paging (redirect from Virtual paging)
combined with virtual memory, it is known as paged virtual memory. In this scheme, the operating system retrieves data from secondary storage in blocks of...
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physical view, virtual I/O replaces a server’s multiple I/O cables with a single cable that provides a shared transport for all network and storage connections...
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underlying hardware. Software-defined storage typically includes a form of storage virtualization to separate the storage hardware from the software that manages...
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Unit MVC—Model-View-Controller MVP—Most Valuable Professional MVS—Multiple Virtual Storage MWC—Mobile World Congress MXF—Material Exchange Format MX—Mail...
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Logical disk (category Storage virtualization)
logical disk, logical volume or virtual disk (VD or vdisk for short) is a virtual device that provides an area of usable storage capacity on one or more physical...
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especially where virtual SANs are called for. This allows each virtual server to see its own storage and no other virtual server's storage. NPIV is defined...
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started on mainframe platforms such as Virtual Machine (VM), Virtual Storage Extended (VSE), and Multiple Virtual Storage (MVS). In 1983, DB2 for MVS Version...
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the goal of storage virtualization is to group multiple disk arrays from different vendors, scattered over a network, into a single storage device. The...
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often providing multiple virtual machines on one physical platform. The table below compares basic information about platform virtualization hypervisors....
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functional Multiple Virtual Storage (MVS) operating system package. These elements included, but were not limited to: Data Facility Storage Management...
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Oracle VirtualBox (formerly Sun VirtualBox, Sun xVM VirtualBox and InnoTek VirtualBox) is a hosted hypervisor for x86 virtualization developed by Oracle...
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IBM SAN Volume Controller (category Storage virtualization)
block storage virtualization appliance that belongs to the IBM System Storage product family. SVC implements an indirection, or "virtualization", layer...
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MVT evolved into OS/VS2 (SVS) (Single Virtual Storage), then various versions of MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage) culminating in the current z/OS. When...
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OS-level virtualization is an operating system (OS) virtualization paradigm in which the kernel allows the existence of multiple isolated user space instances...
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DataCore (category Storage virtualization)
software-defined storage based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States. The company is a pioneer in the development of SAN virtualization technology, and...
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File system (redirect from File storage)
disk that serves as a storage device for a file system. File systems such as tmpfs can store files in virtual memory. A virtual file system provides access...
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