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310 IBM z13s Technical Guide

7.16.9 zBX licensed software

The software licensing for the zBX select System x and POWER7 blades and DataPower

XI50z follows the same rules as licensing for blades that are installed outside of zBX.

PowerVM Enterprise Edition

must be licensed for POWER7 blades at the time of ordering the

blades.

The hypervisor for the select System x blades for zBX is provided as part of the zEnterprise

Unified Resource Manager.

IBM z Unified Resource Manager

The IBM z Unified Resource Manager is available through z13, z13s, zEC12, and zBC12

hardware features, either ordered with the system or ordered later. No separate software

licensing is required.

7.17 References

For current planning information, see the support website for each of the following operating

systems:

򐂰 z/OS:

http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/z/zos/

򐂰 z/VM:

http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/z/zvm/

򐂰 z/VSE:

http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zvse/support/preventive.html

򐂰 z/TPF:

http://www.ibm.com/software/htp/tpf/pages/maint.htm

򐂰 Linux on z Systems:

http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/linux/

򐂰 KVM for IBM z Systems:

http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/solutions/virtualization/kvm/

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