Specifications

Chapter 7. Virtualization

If you create virtual servers (also known as logical partitions (LPARs)) on your

Power Systems compute node, you can consolidate your workload to deliver

cost savings and improve infrastructure responsiveness. As you look for ways to

maximize the return on your IT infrastructure investments, consolidating

workloads and increasing server use becomes an attractive proposition.

IBM Power Systems, combined with PowerVM technology, are designed to help

you consolidate and simplify your IT environment. The following list details

several key capabilities:

򐂰 Improve server use by consolidating diverse sets of applications.

򐂰 Share processor, memory, and I/O resources to reduce the total cost of

ownership (TCO).

򐂰 Improve business responsiveness and operational speed by dynamically

reallocating resources to applications as needed, to better anticipate

changing business needs.

򐂰 Simplify IT infrastructure management by making workloads independent of

hardware resources, so that you can make business-driven policies to deliver

resources based on time, cost, and service-level requirements.

򐂰 Move running workloads between servers to maximize availability and avoid

planned downtime.