Operating System Support - IBM BladeCenter PS700 Technical Overview And Introduction

Characteristic
I/O concurrent maintenance
(not available on POWER
based blades)
Serviceable event
management
PowerVM function
Full PowerVM Capability
Capacity on Demand
I/O Support for IBM i
Multiple Shared Processor
Pool
Workload Management
(WLM) Groups Supported
Support for multiple profiles
per partition
SysPlan Deploy &
mksysplan

2.12 Operating system support

The IBM POWER7 processor-based systems supports three families of operating systems:
AIX
IBM i
Linux
In addition, the Virtual I/O Server can be installed in special partitions that provide support to
the other operating systems for using features such as virtualized I/O devices, PowerVM Live
Partition Mobility, or PowerVM Active Memory™ Sharing.
Note: For details about the software available on IBM POWER servers, see Power
Systems Software™ at the following Web page:
http://www.ibm.com/systems/power/software/index.html
The PS700, PS701, and PS702 blades support the following operating system versions.
Virtual I/O Server
Virtual I/O Server 2.1.3.0 or later
IBM regularly updates the Virtual I/O Server code. To find information about the latest
updates, see the Virtual I/O Server at the following Web page:
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/vios/documentation/home.html
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IBM BladeCenter PS700, PS701, and PS702 Technical Overview and Introduction
IVM
VIOS support for slot and device level
concurrent maintenance through the diag
hot plug support.
Service Focal Point Light: Consolidated
management of firmware- and
management partition-detected errors
Partial
Entry of PowerVM codes only
Virtual Only
No, default pool only
One
No
No
HMC
Guided support in the "Repair and Verify"
function on the HMC.
Service Focal Point support for
consolidated management of operating
system- and firmware-detected errors
Full
Full Support
Virtual and Direct
Yes
254
Yes
No