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1-1 Redundant components in a virtualized system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2-1 HMC window to enable the <strong>Virtualization</strong> Engine Technologies . . . . . . 29
2-2 ASMI menu to enable the <strong>Virtualization</strong> Engine Technologies . . . . . . . 30
2-3 Distribution of capacity entitlement on virtual processors . . . . . . . . . . . 38
2-4 Capped shared processor partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
2-5 Uncapped shared processor partition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
2-6 Physical, virtual, and logical processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
2-7 SMIT SMT panel with options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
2-8 The <strong>POWER</strong> Hypervisor abstracts the physical server hardware . . . . . 49
2-9 Virtual processor to physical processor mapping: pass 1 and pass 2 . . 51
2-10 Micro-Partitioning processor dispatch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
2-11 Boundaries for software licensing on a per-processor basis . . . . . . . . . 59
2-12 Example of initial licensing planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
2-13 IBM Tivoli License Manager role in compliance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
2-14 Example of a VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
2-15 The VID is placed in the extended Ethernet header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
2-16 adapters and interfaces with VLANs (left) and LA (right). . . . . . . . . . . . 78
2-17 Connection to external network using routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
2-18 Shared Ethernet Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
2-19 VLAN configuration example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
2-20 Adding virtual Ethernet adapters on the VIOS for VLANs . . . . . . . . . . . 87
2-21 Virtual SCSI architecture overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
2-22 Logical Remote Direct Memory Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
2-23 Virtual SCSI device relationship on Virtual I/O Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
2-24 Virtual SCSI device relationship on AIX 5L client partition. . . . . . . . . . . 94
2-25 Partition Load Manager overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
2-26 Integrated <strong>Virtualization</strong> Manager configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
2-27 Implementing MPIO in the VIO client or VIO server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
2-28 Implementing Mirroring in the VIO client or VIO server . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
2-29 Bridging a virtual and a physical Ethernet adapter with Linux . . . . . . . 114
3-1 Hardware Management Console view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
3-2 Starting the Create Logical Partition Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
3-3 Defining the partition ID and partition name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
3-4 Skipping the workload management group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
3-5 Specifying a name to the partition profile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
3-6 Partitions memory settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
3-7 Using shared processor allocation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
3-8 Shared processor settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
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