Re: LPAR Questions

[Kirk Goins <kirkgoins@xxxxxxxxx>]

Depends. in my way of thinking.  If the you ever need to take down the Host
partition then all the others will come down too. If that is a concern
then  the HOST should not run any apps.


On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 5:00 AM, kevin <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I've just taken delivery of a Power6 server running 7.1..
>
> What is the best practice when running guest partitions - should the
> primary be just for the OS and not used for much else..
>
> I want to to have two IBM i partitions one live and the other test for an
> RPG application...I also want to set up two Linux partitions live/test for
> email and web servers..
>
> Finally can I run any flavor of Linux..
>
> Thanks
>
> Kevin
>
>
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