Re: LPAR and Performance

Currently our development machine and production machine are two separate 
boxes.  This may change as our development box may become our offsite box. 
 Then our development will be a partition on each as our production will 
be a partition on each.
You won't run into the "combining two boxes into one, did I jump up a tier 
problem" which many lpar installations have.
There are a few software packages out there that charge by the partition. 
I don't believe that IBM is one.  Although this may change.  After all, if 
you buy a huge i5 and are predominantly running Linux and Unix on it, why 
should you have to purchase an i5/os license for a 595 when all you're 
running is one or two small partitions using i5/OS.  (Then again, running 
Linux underneath i5/os helps disk bound processing quite a bit.)  You 
might have to check with any other vendors you have.

Some hardware duplication may be required.  Like IOP's, etc.  Or if your 
queer for twinax.

As far as unloading both partitions from one box to a new box, it would be 
two separate processes.  Or, just like doing two different unload/reload's 
to a new box.  There is no "Save Everything" command to move them both.

Rob Berendt