Who uses Velocity Software, and What do they say?

• 2023"Ensono uses zVPS and zPRO to manage and monitor many of our z/VM internal systems and client IBM Z environments. This workload includes z/OS, VSE, and Linux running under z/VM. Ensono uses all components of zVPS including zVIEW, zMAP, and zALERT for dashboards, capacity reporting, and incident reporting respectively. We encourage ALL of our z/VM clients to license and use zVPS."
  
  Manager - z/VM, z/VSE, and Linux on IBM Z
  
  
• 2022 "zPRO allows us to gain time in provisioning Linux on z guests add CPU and storage resources dynamically, even for people who don't know the z/VM hypervisor. It allows our coworkers from the x86 world to take actions like start, stop, ebooting, move on another machine Linux guest in one click. It is secured (we use LDAP authentication), light (need very few resources), quick (work on a browser) and efficient."
  
  Mainframe System Engineer, Global Financial Institution
  
  
• "In a large Linux environment we provisioned new servers using homegrown code. It was thousands of lines and becoming more difficult to modify to address growing audit regulations. In zPRO we found the ability to do the things we needed with a collection of much smaller EXECs, CGIs and DIRMODELs, and can do much more plus we get the support of a vendor who has consistently met our needs with the other products they provide."
  
  Systems Engineer, Multinational Financial Services Company
  
  
• "zPRO has spoiled me" from a Linux Admin that was given access to build and manage application/DB servers himself
  
  
• "zPRO lets me focus on bigger, time-consuming projects"
  
  
• "After I gave zPRO access to our off-shore support teams, I have not had 2AM phone calls asking for help since"
  
  
• "We are using zPRO to make a case for [solutions] that require data to be stored more securely instead of [in] the AWS cloud."
  
  
• "After the second week of {bleeping} around with {W} and still not getting it to work, we gave up. I had zPRO [running] on four systems before lunch."
  
  This customer spent 4 months trying to get the other product working and then it took 2 hours to install zPRO and clone a server!!
  
  
• "We {seriously experienced VM people} tried OpenStack, CMA, XCAT with absolutely NO success. zPRO just worked."
  
  
• "I had a bunch of REXX scripts I used for DNS and hypersocket assignments. zPRO let me plug them in and continue using them without any changes"
  
  
• "I had a real need to focus on bigger projects, not trivial stuff like building new servers, or restarting them"
• Customer in the hospitality industry

  IBM Z provides the security, resilience, performance, scalability, agility, and sustainability that our business requires. We use Velocity Software to track and report zTPF, zOS , zVM and zLinux system capacity usage. We enabled our team to easily see when our mainframes are running well and conversely to visually see drops in demand signaling potential issues in traffic outside of our systems. The ease of use for the tool is especially important on a system with limited VM staffing. (2024)

• "Ensono uses zVPS and zPRO to manage and monitor many of our z/VM internal systems and client IBM Z environments. This workload includes z/OS, VSE, and Linux running under z/VM.
  Ensono uses all components of zVPS including zVIEW, zMAP, and zALERT for dashboards, capacity reporting, and incident reporting respectively.
  (2023)
  Manager - z/VM, z/VSE, and Linux on IBM Z


• "zPRO allows us to gain time in provisioning Linux on z guests add CPU and storage resources dynamically, even for people who don't know the z/VM hypervisor. It allows our coworkers from the x86 world to take actions like start, stop, rebooting, create another Linux guest in one click. It is secured (we use LDAP authentication), light (need very few resources), quick (work on a browser) and efficient." (2022)
  Mainframe System Engineer, Global Financial Institution
  


• "In a large Linux environment we provisioned new servers using homegrown code. It was thousands of lines and becoming more difficult to modify to address growing audit regulations. In zPRO we found the ability to do the things we needed with a collection of much smaller EXECs, CGIs and DIRMODELs, and can do much more plus we get the support of a vendor who has consistently met our needs with the other products they provide."
  Systems Engineer, Multinational Financial Services Company


• "zPRO has spoiled me" from a Linux Admin that was given access to build and manage application/DB servers himself


• "zPRO lets me focus on bigger, time-consuming projects"


• "After I gave zPRO access to our off-shore support teams, I have not had 2AM phone calls asking for help since"


• "We are using zPRO to make a case for [solutions] that require data to be stored more securely instead of [in] the AWS cloud."


• "After the second week of {bleeping} around with {W} and still not getting it to work, we gave up. I had zPRO [running] on four systems before lunch."
  (This customer spent 4 months trying to get the other product working and then it took 2 hours to clone a server with zPRO!!)


• "We {seriously experienced VM people} tried OpenStack, CMA, XCAT with absolutely NO success. zPRO just worked."


• "I had a bunch of REXX scripts I used for DNS and hypersocket assignments. zPRO let me plug them in and continue using them without any changes"


• "I had a real need to focus on bigger projects, not trivial stuff like building new servers, or restarting them"
  
• When I think of Velocity Software and their VM Tools, I think "Commitment to Quality/Accuracy, Easy Access to Experts, Reasonably Priced" ... What more could I ask for !!
  Steve Amichetti, Satisfied Customer/User Since 1997 (October, 2008)


• "zVPS is indispensable when you're doing Linux on z/VM. The software itself is a great tool and the people at Velocity are top notch! Velocity Software is truely a customer-driven organization. "(October, 2008)
  Robert C. Schwartz, Technical Support Director
  Boscovs, LLC


• Our VM system crashed last night and again Tony bailed us out. He quickly identified the problem and proceeded to fix our environment. Velocity Software continues to exceed our expectations in software capabilities, service and support. Your organization is central to our success in the z/VM environment.
  Thank you
  Regards, Rob
  Robert C. Schwartz Technical Support Director Boscovs, LLC


• Velocity Software enables the Office of the Executive Secretary at the Supreme Court of Virginia to effectively manage and maintain its' zVM, zLinux and zVSE platforms. Being able to have a comprehensive view of all performance related data pays huge dividends in properly scaling the ever growing application environment requirements on System z. (October, 2008)
  Mike Riggs, Manager, Systems and Database Administration
  Department of Judicial Information Technology

What problems have you solved with zVPS?

Following are real production problems solved using zVPS

• Installation lost DB2 connections every monday morning at 1am. zVPS showed a process being started on all of their servers concurrently at that time that caused DB2 connections to time out.
• Installation saw spike in CPU, zVPS showed the kjournal process becoming active across 100 servers. The cause was diagnosed using zVPS to a DASD Cache Non-Volatile storage becoming full because of backup operations
• Installation received slow Websphere performance, zTUNE diagnosed the LPAR was misconfigured and the installation was sharing a CP with z/OS instead of having dedicated IFL.
• Many installations have had page thrashing diagnosed as due to system settings being incorrect.
• Installations use the complete LInux RAM data to manage virtual machine sizes to optimize overall storage utilization.