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Note: Detailed documentation related to any of the operating systems and applications
installed on the solution can be found on http://x24n01.pbm.ihost.com/Documentation.jsp
There are also links at the end of this document to web sites with additional information.
Operating Systems Installed
The Power on Wheels solution has seven LPARs defined. Each of them has a different
Operating System. We have provided a sample of each of the supported Operating
Systems across the LPARs. We have provided a single Machine that contains an IBM i
LPAR with the representative IBM i code installed on this LPAR.
VIO Server:
IBM PowerVM provides virtualization capabilities that allow the user to carve up the
physical resources of the machine and provide resources to LPARS virtually. This is
necessary because when there is a single storage adapter in a machine and you want to have
more LPARS than you have storage adapters, VIO server allows you to assign parts of the
adapter to many LPARs. We use VIO server to provide virtualized storage and virtualized
networks to the LPARs.
- The Virtual I/O Server is part of the IBM eServer p6 Advanced Power Virtualization
hardware feature.
- Virtual I/O Server allows sharing of physical resources between LPARs including
virtual SCSI and virtual networking.
- This allows more efficient utilization of physical resources through sharing between
LPARs and facilitates server consolidation.
Power on Wheels VIO Server Configuration:
- The Power on Wheels solution has additional storage connected via Fiber adapters.
Fiber provides for fast storage read/writes.
- For the most efficient designation of storage to the LPARs we have carved the storage
and provided mappings to the LPARS so that there are small root volumes and larger
volumes for the data and programs..
- The detailed VIO Server disk mapping can be found in the Appendix A.
AIX
- AIX stands for Advanced Interactive eXecutive operating system.
- Latest generation of IBM’s well-proven, scalable, open standards-based UNIX®
operating system
- Features for virtualization, security, availability and manageability designed to
makeAIX®6 even more flexible, secure and available than previous versions
- Built on IBMPOWER7™ technology and virtualization to help deliver superior
performance, increase system utilization and efficiency, provide for easy
administration and reduce total costs
- LPARs: p22n01, p22n04 and p22n-5 have AIX 6.1 installed.
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