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The <strong>POWER</strong> Hypervisor is part of all IBM System p5 servers; you cannot configure a server without the <strong>POWER</strong> Hypervisor. All the performance benchmarks published by IBM on System p5 servers are done with the <strong>POWER</strong> Hypervisor. When you select an server with a given rPerf, this is the performance potential that is available for your applications. 5.6.1 Partition configuration considerations This section describes some of the points to consider when configuring partitions on an IBM System p5 server. Partition count As a general rule, the number of partitions should be kept as low as possible. It is preferable to consolidate several applications on to a single AIX 5L partition rather than creating one partition for each application. This is sometimes not feasible for technical or organizational reasons, for example, tuning AIX 5L for transactional database applications may degrade performance in other types of applications. Each partition must be managed just like any stand-alone server, requiring configuration, backups, and software licenses. Keeping the partition count down has a direct impact on the administration costs and thus on the total cost of ownership of any server. Further, each partition has associated resources. These resources have a context information that must be managed by the virtualization software. This management of state information consumes resources that might otherwise be deployed in the partitions. Resource maximums One parameter of partition definition is the maximum number of any given resource, be it memory, processors, or virtual I/O slots. It may be tempting to position the maximum values of these figures to be sure that it will always be possible to increase a partition’s resources using dynamic reconfiguration. However, the <strong>POWER</strong> Hypervisor, just like an operating system, must maintain data structures that will allow it to manage the eventuality that each partition receives the maximum possible resources. The Hypervisor will reserve the necessary memory making it unavailable to the partitions. You should therefore specify only realistic values for the maximum number of resources, using a planned margin. Virtual CPU count Related to the resource maximums is the virtual CPU count for any partition and the sum of all virtual processors in all the shared-processor partitions. 356 <strong>Advanced</strong> <strong>POWER</strong> <strong>Virtualization</strong> on IBM System p5
The following rules of thumb should be considered when configuring the number of virtual processors in shared-processor partitions: ► ► ► ► The number of virtual processors in a shared-processor partition should not exceed the number of physical processors in the shared-processor pool. The number of virtual processors in a capped shared-processor partition should not exceed the entitlement rounded up to the nearest whole number. For versions of AIX 5L prior to V5.3 Maintenance Level 3 or with later versions of AIX 5L with the virtual processor folding feature disabled, the sum of all the virtual CPUs in all active shared-processor partitions should not be greater than four times the number of physical processors in the shared-processor pool. For versions of AIX 5L after Version 5.3 ML3 with virtual processor folding, an excessive virtual CPU count has a very low performance impact. Capped or uncapped partitions? Capped partitions will never exceed their entitlements, even if they are overloaded and there are unused resources in the system. Generally, the use of capped partitions is to be discouraged; use uncapped partitions and prioritize the allocation of spare capacity using partition weights. 5.6.2 <strong>Virtualization</strong> and applications Some applications and middleware products are not able to adapt to dynamic reconfiguration changes, for example, the product starts a number of processes based on the number of configured processors. If the application requires more computing power, adding additional processors will not have any effect without shutting down the application and restarting it. Using shared processors, it is possible to change the entitlement of virtual processors to change the processing resources available to the application. Because the processor count does not change, then applications that are not DR aware do not have to be restarted. If an application or workload environment is cache sensitive or cannot tolerate the variability introduced with resource sharing, it should be deployed in a dedicated processor partition with SMT disabled. In dedicated partitions, the entire physical processor is assigned solely to the partition. 5.6.3 Resource management PLM and WLM provide resource and workload management. Some applications and middleware also provide their own resource management and in particular databases. Care should be taken when using the resource management tools in AIX 5L and the <strong>POWER</strong> Hypervisor with such applications and middleware. Chapter 5. System management 357
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