Overview
VMware and IBM share a large intersection of joint customers. Together, IBM and VMware offer simplified deployment and lowered operational costs, allowing customers to implement a flexible and scalable computing environment that helps drive their business objectives. VMware's alliance with IBM cuts across all IBM's key businesses: software, hardware and services.
VMware and IBM Software are working together to simplify deployment of IBM solutions and IBM Middleware on VMware virtual infrastructure. Benchmarks, deployment guides, reference configurations and customer references are in various stages of completion across the IBM Software brands. Read on to learn more how you can gain the benefits of combining industry-leading VMware virtualization with the critical functionality of IBM Software solutions.
IBM Software CTO Anant Jhingran speaks about IBM and virtualization 
Full Support and Virtualization Friendly Licensing
Full support for IBM Data Management products in production on VMware Infrastructure
IBM allows customers to benefit from the infrastructure efficiency and management agility of the industry’s most advanced virtualization suite by providing full support for all IBM Data Management products running in production on VMware Infrastructure. This support policy covers the use of advanced VMware capabilities such as VMotion and cloning.
IBM has published an official policy to provide support for all the IBM Software Group products running on VMware ESX, including the IBM Data Management products. This policy is published on the IBM web site.
In addition, VMware has been validated specifically with DB2 and has received the ‘Ready for IBM DB2 data server” validation for DB2 9 and DB2 9.5. More information on the validation is published by IBM.
License only the capacity you use with Virtualization Capacity Licensing
IBM has introduced a new, virtualization-friendly licensing model for IBM Software Group products running on VMware Infrastructure. With Virtualization Capacity Licensing, customers can benefit from the consolidation and resource pooling capabilities of VMware Infrastructure while only paying licenses for the capacity actually allocated to IBM products. Customers must only license the Virtual CPUs (vCPU) allocated to a Virtual Machine, with each vCPU counting as the equivalent of one processor core in the IBM Processor Value Unit (PVU) licensing model.
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