RE: To use VIOS or Not to use VIOS, that is the question

I'm just starting to wrestle with the same question Kirk is.

We want a box (non-blade) that can run multiple paritions and be able to
quickly start up a new partition as needed.

Everything I hear makes it sounds like with VIOS you can snap a while
partion to disk and restore it easily as well.

Where's the best place to learn more about VIOS ?

I know Pete was the blade pioneer last year :-)

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message: 6
date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:51:03 -0700
from: "Dan Hogan" <Dan.Hogan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: To use VIOS or Not to use VIOS, that is the question

Hi Kirk,

We have a Power 6 that is running IBM i as the host partition, IBM i as
a guest partition, AIX and Linux as guest partitions. I asked IBM this
same question and was told that given our environment and background
(longtime IBM i shop) that I would probably be more comfortable with IBM
i. If I was more comfortable with *nix then VIOS was the way to go.

Dan...