RE: Question on V5R3 LPAR mode

[michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Nope...not with an i5 and i5/OS. There's a thing called the Flexible
Service Processor, and if that blows up I guess partitions fail, but
there's no 'primary' partition anymore.


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Question on V5R3 LPAR mode
> From: "McKown, John" <john.mckown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, November 30, 2004 3:44 pm
> To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Me again, the know-nothing newbie that MAY be getting an iSeries.
> 
> This is a question on running in LPAR mode. One of the other guys here is
> reading a RedBook about Performance Management on the iSeries. It said
> something about Primary and Secondary Partitions. In particular, it said
> that you have one "Primary" partition. If the OS in that partition fails,
> then all other partitions fail.
> 
> Looking at the V5R3 stuff, so far, it appears that this is no longer true.
> 
> So: with i5/OS V5R3, is there a "Primary Partition", an outage on which will
> terminate the systems in all other partitions? This is definately different
> than zSeries where the hypervisor does not depend in any way on any LPAR.
> 
> Inquiring minds want to know <grin>.
> 
> 
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