diff --git a/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/manage_clusters/ppc64le/virtual_machines/index.rst b/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/manage_clusters/ppc64le/virtual_machines/index.rst index e8086fd7b..0bd559648 100644 --- a/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/manage_clusters/ppc64le/virtual_machines/index.rst +++ b/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/manage_clusters/ppc64le/virtual_machines/index.rst @@ -2,27 +2,29 @@ Virtual Machines ================ -The **Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)** is a full virtualization solution for for Enterprise Linux distributions. KVM is known as the *de facto* open source virtualization mechanism. It is currently used by many software companies. +xCAT supports the following virtualization infrastructures: + +**Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)**: + A full virtualization solution for Enterprise Linux distributions, known as the *de facto* open source virtualization mechanism and currently used by many software companies. -**IBM PowerKVM** is a product that leverages the Power resilience and performance with the openness of KVM, which provides several advantages: +**IBM PowerKVM**: + A product that leverages the Power resilience and performance with the openness of KVM, which provides several advantages: -* Higher workload consolidation with processors overcommitment and memory sharing -* Dynamic addition and removal of virtual devices -* Microthreading scheduling granularity -* Integration with **IBM PowerVC** and **OpenStack** -* Simplified management using open source software -* Avoids vendor lock-in -* Uses POWER8 hardware features, such as SMT8 and microthreading + * Higher workload consolidation with processors overcommitment and memory sharing + * Dynamic addition and removal of virtual devices + * Microthreading scheduling granularity + * Integration with **IBM PowerVC** and **OpenStack** + * Simplified management using open source software + * Avoids vendor lock-in + * Uses POWER8 hardware features, such as SMT8 and microthreading The xCAT based KVM solution offers users the ability to: * provision the hypervisor on bare metal nodes -* provision virtual machines +* provision virtual machines with the any OS supported in xCAT * migrate virtual machines to different hosts -* install all versions of Linux supported in the standard xCAT provisioning methods (you can install stateless virtual machines, iSCSI, and scripted install virtual machines) * install copy on write instances of virtual machines -* copy virtual machines - +* clone virtual machines This section introduces the steps of management node preparation, KVM hypervisor setup and virtual machine management, and presents some typical problems and solutions on xCAT kvm support.