Re: LPAR Question -- MIDRANGE-L

That is why I asked the question to begin with,  I understood that someone 
consolidating real production servers into one LPAR server would need the 
extra hardware, tape drives etc...  I just wanted to confirm that this was 
also needed on a simple QA box that isn't mission critical, doesn't need 
backup etc....

I have no intention of trying to do this myself, if anything I don't want 
to do it period.  It is way more expensive than buying multiple boxes.  I 
am actually just trying to convince some other people that they cannot do 
this themselves, and I wanted to be sure I understood the reasons and 
confirm that there are not scenarios where you probably could do it 
yourself.

Mark






Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Mark,

   Please understand this is not a flame but from your comments you 
understand the theory behind LPAR but not the reality.  Those of us 
doing LPAR would like to be able to do some of the things you suggest 
and perhaps in the future some of them may appear. But for now you must 
get the rules right, all of them, or you *WILL* be missing critical 
pieces.  Trust me on that.  You cannot create a partition without the 
minimum requirements.  I strongly recommend that if you are doing only 
one, you select a partner that knows the ropes. They can show you how it 
was done, train you in the day-to-day stuff and be available for future 
enhancements.

   - Larry

Mark Phippard wrote:

>If all of those things you mentioned need to be done, then I would 
>definitely go the BP route.  What I was getting at, is that I do not 
think 
>I have any special hardware requirements, unless I cannot share the CD 
>drive easily between the partitions.  I do not care about having backup 
>for both partitions.  I just want to be able to do something like create 
a 
>second partition and tell it to use xx GB of DASD, xx MB of RAM and xx% 
of 
>CPU.
>
>Do I have to dedicate disk by partition?  I was assuming I could just 
draw 
>from a common pool of disks?
>
>Thanks, it sounds like we will go with a BP.  We already have a list of 
>local BP's with experience at LPAR configs.
>
>Mark
>
> 
>

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