Powervm Lx86 - IBM BladeCenter PS700 Technical Overview And Introduction

At the time of writing, virtual SCSI supports Fibre Channel, parallel SCSI, iSCSI, SAS, SCSI
RAID devices, and optical devices (including DVD-RAM and DVD-ROM). Other protocols
such as SSA and tape devices are not supported.
For more information about the specific storage devices supported for VIOS, see the following
Web page:
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/vios/documentation/datasheet.html
VIOS functions
VIOS includes a number of features, including monitoring solutions, as follows:
Support for Live Partition Mobility on POWER6 and POWER7 processor-based systems
with the PowerVM Enterprise Edition. For more information about Live Partition Mobility,
see 3.3.5, "PowerVM Live Partition Mobility" on page 93.
Support for virtual SCSI devices backed by a file. These are then accessed as standard
SCSI-compliant LUNs.
Support for virtual Fibre Channel devices used with the NPIV feature.
VIOS Expansion Pack with additional security functions such as Kerberos (Network
Authentication Service for users and Client and Server Applications), SNMP v3 (Simple
Network Management Protocol), and LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol client
functionality).
The Workload Estimator is designed to ease the deployment of a virtualized infrastructure.
IBM Systems Director agent and IBM Tivoli Management Tools. The IBM Systems
Director Family is a suite of products consisting of a no-charge base and for-a-fee
extensions. Software support is optionally available for a fee. Using IBM Systems Director
and IVM, Power Systems clients can perform basic monitoring and management of their
virtualized and non-virtualized environments from a single console view. Using these
tools, clients can view and perform base management across IBM Systems in their
enterprise. More information about IBM Systems Directorcan be found at the following
Web page:
http://www.ibm.com/systems/virtualization/systemsdirector/
Additional command-line interface (CLI) statistics in svmon, vmstat, fcstat and topas
commands
Monitoring solutions to help manage and monitor the VIOS and shared resources. New
commands and views provide additional metrics for memory, paging, processes, Fibre
Channel HBA statistics, and virtualization.
For more information about the Virtual I/O Server and its implementation, see PowerVM
Virtualization on IBM System p: Introduction and Configuration Fourth Edition, SG24-7940,
available from the following Web page:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247940.html

3.3.4 PowerVM Lx86

The PowerVM Editions hardware feature includes PowerVM Lx86. Lx86 is a dynamic, binary
translator that allows Linux applications (compiled for Linux on Intel architectures) to run
without change, alongside local Linux on POWER applications. Lx86 makes this possible by
dynamically translating x86 instructions to POWER and caching them to enhance translation
performance. In addition, Lx86 maps Linux on Intel architecture system calls to Linux on
POWER architecture system calls. No modifications or recompilations of the x86 Linux
applications are needed.
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IBM BladeCenter PS700, PS701, and PS702 Technical Overview and Introduction