Re: Virtual Partition Manager.

[Bryan Dietz <BDietz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Al since the a nnouncement is not "official" till April 29th, I expect the
web site and the PTF will not be available until then.


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Bryan Dietz
Aktion Associates

midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 04/13/2005 12:59:42 PM:

>
> Rob,
>
> Please double check the link.  It's dead.
>
> Al
>
>
> Virtual Partition Manager
> i5/OS now supports virtual partition management to enable the creation
and
> management of Linux partitions without an HMC.
> With the virtual partition manager, an i5 server can support one i5/OS
> partition and up to four Linux partitions.
> The Linux partitions must use virtual I/O resources owned by the i5/OS
> partition.
> With the virtual partition manager, uncapped processor partitions can be
> created and up to four virtual Ethernet connections can be defined.
> Dynamic resource movement is not supported.
> Small and medium-sized customers can use the virtual partition manager to
> create Linux partitions for their infrastructure applications. If you
want
> to create multiple i5/OS, Linux, and AIX® 5L dynamic partitions, or use
> direct I/O resources and advanced partition management tools, you would
> continue to use the HMC for partition management.
> Virtual Partition Manager is available via PTF MF34753.
> For additional information, refer to the White Paper at
> http://www.ibm.com/iseries/linux/vpm
>