Control your system operations, ensure availability of your system resources and optimize your z/VM environment.

The robust capabilities of the z/VM environment enable you to extend the business value of your mainframe technology across the enterprise by integrating applications and data while providing exceptional levels of availability, security and operational ease.

z/VM virtualization technology enables you to quickly create many virtual machines consisting of a virtualized processor, communications, storage, networking and I/O resources. z/VM is also a proven, highly scalable and efficient environment for running Linux guests on IBM z9 and zSeries platforms, enabling sites to consolidate hundreds or thousands of servers on a single mainframe.

Virtualization makes it easy to add a new guest or application at a moment's notice, but at the same time introduces many challenges; for example, managing and securing these guests and tracking and controlling resource usage. Similarly, the enhanced power and sophistication of today's z/VM systems support highly complex and robust applications, but as these applications grow in complexity, the challenges of managing this environment also increase.

CA helps you address these and many other z/VM system challenges with an integrated family of proven solutions that optimize utilization of data center resources, reduce total cost of ownership, align utilization to changing business requirements, secure critical systems, and ensure the continuous availability of essential IT services. These solutions provide automated operations, cost and resource management, service level management, security, backup and recovery, performance management and storage management for both traditional z/VM and mainframe Linux environments.