Re: LPAR on very small machines

[Glenn Ericson <Glenn-Ericson@xxxxxxx>]

LPAR  does  require planning for  both  hardware configuration as well as 
business objectives.

And I doubt if  it is  possible to place  more then one partition in the 
CEC of a 520. without  expansion towers.


At 11:03 AM 8/18/2004, Pat Barber wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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