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The hypervisor, or FSP, or Flexible Service Process, as it's known on the i5 controls all other partitions; be they running OS/400, Linux, AIX or whatever comes down the road. Any termination of the FSP will terminate all partitions. There are times when you need to apply firmware upgrades to the FSP. You can download those in advance, set them to apply at the next IPL, bring down all partitions at a convenient time, IPL the FSP and bring up the partitions. One big difference in this concept on the i5 versus the iSeries is that the controlling partition on the iSeries ran under OS/400 while what they use for the FSP is not supposed to concern our pretty little blonde heads. Another difference is that the iSeries required some dedication of hardware to the controlling partition and that isn't so on the i5 and it's FSP. The last difference is that you talked to the controlling partition on the iSeries with a dumb terminal or a PC with something called Op's Console. On the i5 you use a Hardware Management Console or HMC. But aren't you zSeries folks used to that? Rob Berendt -- Group Dekko Services, LLC Dept 01.073 PO Box 2000 Dock 108 6928N 400E Kendallville, IN 46755 http://www.dekko.com "McKown, John" <john.mckown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 11/30/2004 03:44 PM Please respond to Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject Question on V5R3 LPAR mode 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>. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer UICI Insurance Center Information Technology This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and its' content is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this transmission, or taking any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. -- This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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