Re: i5 LPAR resources

Keith:

Memory can be allocated in increments of a metric named "Memory Region" 
which can be 16 MB in the smaller i5 boxes.  It will be larger in the 
larger boxes.

As always, you have a choice with a Linux partition as to whether you give 
Linux its own DASD (no IOP, just an IOA and disks) or you "host" the DASD 
by creating a Network Server Space (*NWS) and giving THAT to Linux as its 
DASD.  In this scenario, the Linux partition needs the i5/OS (F.K.A. 
OS/400) to be running and alive to BE the host.  You can also (separately) 
choose to give Linux its own ethernet card (an IOA itself) or "virtualize" 
that also.

There are many more choices.  That's both good and bad news.

Dave Schnee
Barsa Consulting Group, LLC

Keith Carpenter wrote --------------------------------

date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 13:43:10 -0800
from: "Keith Carpenter" <CarpCon@xxxxxxx>
subject: i5 LPAR resources

I've been looking over the i5 LPAR redbook and have some questions about 
resource allocation to a partition.

It looks like memory can be allocated in 16Mb chunks (LMB) and adjusted as 
needed.

Disk however appears to assigned at the physical drive level. Can drives 
in a RAID set  be assigned to different partitions ?  Or does a whole RAID 
set or IOP need to be assigned to a partition ?

My interest is in configuring a small partition for test purposes.

tia,
Keith