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Subject: Re: multi core processors
From: DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 14:35:16 -0400
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Yes you can but with restrictions. Such as no sharing of tape libraries (only tape drives) and no allocation of any physical resource to the guest partitions.

I know personally "Once you HMC you never go back." :-)

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 4/20/2018 2:33 PM, Nathan Andelin wrote:

On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 7:34 AM, Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Really? I thought you only had an HMC if you're managing multiple
partitions.

My understanding is that up to 4 IBM i and/or Linux partitions can be
configured and managed with Virtual Partition Manager. I'm studying that
option now.

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1011358

and

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1011193

I think I'm going to need some help from IBM i technical support.

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