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  3. August 2010

RE: To use VIOS or Not to use VIOS, that is the question

Hi Kirk,

We have a Power 6 that is running IBM i as the host partition, IBM i as
a guest partition, AIX and Linux as guest partitions. I asked IBM this
same question and was told that given our environment and background
(longtime IBM i shop) that I would probably be more comfortable with IBM
i. If I was more comfortable with *nix then VIOS was the way to go.

Dan...



Trying to decide on a new Power7 if I 'want' to run VIOS as
the primary and Guest multiple IBM i partitions that way or
use a IBM i as the Primary and Guest my other IBM i
partitions that way. I'm sure somebody out there is running
VIOS on a non-blade PowerSystem. How much complexity does
running VIOS add? I know if I want to Guest Linux and AIX,
it's probably the better way to go, but we aren't there yet.
When VIOS and V6 came out there wasn't full native tape
support, has that been solved?

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