4 Mar
2011
4 Mar
'11
8:19 p.m.
John R Pierce wrote:
On 03/04/11 11:59 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
I'm looking forward to the new cgroups and KVM. This will give it
some capabilities similar to AIX virtual partitions which can divvy up CPUs at a fine resolution.
Really? So IBM ported VM into native AIX? I missed that.
IBM Power servers since the Power4+ CPU (they are up to Power7 now) have hardware partitioning support, commonly known as LPAR. LPAR can be divided in units of 1/10th of a CPU. The software to manage this is now called PowerVM (its been called other names in the past, not all polite).
<snip> Neat! Thanks - around '06 I was working as a developer on a big AIX system, but never administered one.
mark (who worked under VM on a mainframe, years back)