New White Paper available: KVM Network Performance

A new white paper has been published: KVM Network Performance - Best Practices and Tuning Recommendations. It is available here, and explores different system configurations (running KVM guests), different networking configuration choices, as well as tuning recommendations for the KVM host and KVM guest environments to achieve greater network performance on the IBM z Systems platforms.

New Books available

Two new books are available as follows:

• The new book KVM Virtual Server Management Tools is available here, covering the open source package virt-manager (see screenshot above) along with its supporting tools virt-install and virt-clone in a generic manner. I.e. it applies to both, KVM on z in general as well as the KVM for IBM z Systems product.
• The Device Drivers, Features, and Commands for Linux as a KVM Guest book is now also available in a version specific to Ubuntu 16.04 here.

For a publications overview see here.