PowerVM

PowerVM, formerly known as Advanced Power Virtualization, is a chargeable feature of IBM POWER5, POWER6, POWER7, POWER8, and POWER9 servers and is required for support of micro-partitions and other advanced features. Support is provided for IBM i, AIX and Linux.

Description

IBM PowerVM has the following components:

A "VET" code, which activates firmware required to support resource sharing and other features.
Installation media for the Virtual I/O Server, which is a service partition providing sharing services for disk and network adapters.
Installation media for Lx86, x86 binary translation software, which allows Linux applications compiled for the Intel x86 platform to run in POWER-emulation mode. A supported Linux distribution is a co-requisite for use of this feature.

IBM PowerVM comes in three editions.

IBM PowerVM Express

Only supported on "Express" servers.
Limited to three partitions, one of which must be a VIOS partition.
No support for Multiple Shared Processor Pools.
Withdrawn from marketing August 1, 2014.

This is primarily intended for "sandbox" environments

IBM PowerVM Standard

Supported on all POWER6, POWER7 and POWER8 systems.
Unrestricted use of partitioning – 10× LPARs per core .
Multiple Shared Processor Pools.

This is the most common edition in use on production systems.

IBM PowerVM Enterprise

Supported on POWER7 and POWER8 systems only.
As PowerVM Standard with the addition of Live Partition Mobility and Active Memory Sharing.
Documentation

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PowerVM

Description

IBM PowerVM Express

IBM PowerVM Standard

IBM PowerVM Enterprise

Documentation