Re: LPAR on very small machines

[Pat Barber <mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That sounds like building two machines.

I have assumed for a long while that LPAR required
a "great deal" of planning to make it work. I often
wondered about this after seeing the chart that shows
up to 256 partitions on a single machine. That's gonna
require a few extra parts.


Vern Hamberg wrote:

> You can do partitions on a small machine - they'll just be very small 
> partitions. The issue, IIRC, has more to do with the peripherals. You 
> need duplicates of some devices, like CDs, you probably need an extra 
> tower for various cards where you can attach external tape drives - not 
> recommended on production machines, BTW, but I've hot-switched a 3490 
> between LPARs in the lab at IBM. It's no small task to retrofit a 
> machine for LPARs.