Guest Partitions

["Jerry C. Adams" <midrange@xxxxxxxx>]

I have a BP coming in next week to give us a proposal for a Power 7 system.
One of the questions that came up, when we were talking about our
needs/wants was partitioning so that, unlike today on our V5R1 machine, I
could have a test environment separate from production.  

 

This morning remembered some mention of a guest partition capability when
6.1 was announced.  I read some links that Rob provided but, admittedly, I'm
still just a tad confused or unsatisfied.  That is, the 6.1 technical
overview showed how to set up a client partition, but not how to use it

 

In a previous incarnation I had access to two [2] physical machines; one for
production and one for development/testing.  In 7.1 can/does this guest
(client) partition insulate the host partition (what would be in my case
Production) from updates made in the client?  In the 2-box scenario I ftped
libraries back and forth between the boxes; would that be the same
methodology for the client partition scenario?  And when the client
partition is ended (the Redbook didn't go into whether this could be done or
how, but I figured it could be), do the libraries/objects in the client just
disappear automagically?  

 

Except for migrating objects between host and client, and using IBM i and
disk space, I don't anticipate sharing resources.  That is, such things as
the tape drive, DVD drive, etc.  But what the heck do I know.  Anyway, I
just want to be able to set up a test environment that shields production
from my tests.

 

Jerry C. Adams

IBM i Programmer/Analyst

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