Re: Model 825

[Kirk Goins <kirkgoins@xxxxxxxxx>]

7xx and 8xx have a 'Managing Partition' It's your choice to make it
dedicated to only managing or putting other work it is your choice.

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:21 AM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> You could use the managing partition for running things.  For example if
> you started out with one partition and later on you wanted to break out
> development into it's own partition you could do so, and make the
> production partition the controlling partition.
> However, best practices dictated that you have one partition as a
> controlling partition running no other applications, and have a separate
> production and development partition.
>
> But why?  I have a tough time remembering.  Especially on pre power 6
> machines with pre 6.1 os because of the extra investment in hardware
> required for each partition.  I think the theory was that if you had to
> IPL partition EastCoast and that was your controlling partition, did you
> really want to bring down WestCoast also?  But if you had three
> partitions:  Control, EastCoast and WestCoast you could IPL EastCoast to
> your hearts content with no adverse affects on WestCoast.
>
>
> Rob Berendt
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> From:   Neeraj J <neerajj001@xxxxxxxxx>
> To:     Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   03/02/2010 06:45 PM
> Subject:        Model 825
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>
> have been working on 5xx and HMC for long time and now
> Need to work back on 8xx series ..so wanted to know
>
> 1. Does a model 825-0873 iseries have a dedicated managing partition . I
> know that when we had model 740 we had a dedicated partiton.
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