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IBM PowerVM Virtualization Managing and Monitoring
Abstract
IBM® PowerVM® virtualization technology is a combination of hardware and software that supports and manages the virtual environments on POWER5-, POWER5+, IBM POWER6®, and IBM POWER7®-based systems.
Available on IBM Power Systems™, and IBM BladeCenter® servers as optional Editions, and supported by the IBM AIX®, IBM i, and Linux operating systems, this set of comprehensive systems technologies and services is designed to enable you to aggregate and manage resources using a consolidated, logical view. Deploying PowerVM virtualization and IBM Power Systems offers you the following benefits:
Lower energy costs through server consolidation
Reduced cost of your existing infrastructure
Better management of the growth, complexity, and risk of your infrastructure
This IBM Redbooks® publication is an extension of
Table of contents
Chapter 1. PowerVM Introduction
Part 1. Processor Virtualization
Chapter 2. Shared Processor Pool
Chapter 3. Multiple Shared Processor Pools
Chapter 4. POWER processor compatibility modes
Part 2. Memory Virtualization
Chapter 5. Active Memory Sharing
Chapter 6. Active Memory Deduplication
Chapter 7. Active Memory Expansion
Part 3. I/O Virtualization
Chapter 8. Network virtualization
Chapter 9. Storage Virtualization
Chapter 10. Shared Storage Pools
Part 4. Virtual I/O Server
Chapter 11. Virtual I/O Server
Part 5. Managed Systems Virtualization
Chapter 12. Dynamic Logical Partitioning
Chapter 13. Partition Suspend and Resume
Chapter 14. Live Partition Mobility
Chapter 15. Dynamic Platform Optimizer
Chapter 16. Active System Optimizer and Dynamic System Optimizer
Part 6. Appendixes
Appendix A. Sample script for disk and NIB network checking and recovery
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