This IBM® Redbooks® publication is Volume 4 of a series of books entitled The Virtualization Cookbook for IBM z Systems. The other volumes in the series are:

• The Virtualization Cookbook for IBM z Systems Volume 1: IBM z/VM 6.3, SG24-8147
• The Virtualization Cookbook for IBM z Systems Volume 2: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 Servers, SG24-8303
• The Virtualization Cookbook for IBM z Systems Volume 3: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, SG24-8890

It is advised that you start with Volume 1 of this series, because the IBM z/VM® Hypervisor is the foundation for installing Linux on IBM z™ Systems.

Part 1. Ubuntu Server 16.04

Chapter 1. Install Ubuntu Server 16.04 on LNXADMIN

Chapter 2. Automating installation

Chapter 3. Servicing Linux: Updates and patching

Part 2. Other topics

Chapter 4. Working with disks

Chapter 5. Workload containers and service orchestration

Chapter 6. Working with systemd

Chapter 7. Miscellaneous recipes

Appendix A. References, cheat sheets, and blank worksheets

Appendix B. Additional material

Appendix C. Prerequisite network connectivity