Ibm Gets High Security Marks for Mainframe, Unix Virtualization

Posted by grouch on Jul 20, 2006 11:10 PM EDT
IT Jungle; By Timothy Prickett Morgan
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As of this week, the System z9 EC 109 sever running z/OS and the PR/SM LPAR hypervisor was rated at EAL5, while pSeries 630, 650, and 690 servers using Power4 processors and running AIX 5.1 and 5.2 were certified at the EAL4+ level. Both machines use a remote Hardware Management Console--basically a glorified PC running Linux and a chunk of the hypervisor microcode--to link into a service processor on the mainframe or Unix server and to allocate hard and soft resources to logical partitions.

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