Preface ............................................................................................... ix
Intended Audience .................................................................................................. x
Product Version ...................................................................................................... x
Release Notes ........................................................................................................ x
Referenced Documents ........................................................................................... x
Document Organization ........................................................................................... x
Document conventions ........................................................................................... xi
Getting help ......................................................................................................... xiii
Comments ........................................................................................................... xiii
LPAR manager Overview ...................................................................................... 1-2
Logical Partitioning .............................................................................................. 1-3
Service Ratio ................................................................................................. 1-6
Idle Detection ............................................................................................... 1-7
Processor Capping ......................................................................................... 1-8
Processor Group ............................................................................................ 1-9
Hyper Threading ......................................................................................... 1-10
Guest NUMA ................................................................................................ 1-14
Management Path ....................................................................................... 1-27
SR-IOV ....................................................................................................... 1-36
TagVLAN ..................................................................................................... 1-39
Teaming ..................................................................................................... 1-47
Promiscuous Mode ....................................................................................... 1-48
FC (Fibre Channel) ............................................................................................. 1-54
USB/KVM .......................................................................................................... 1-56
Hitachi Compute Blade 500 Series Logical partitioning manager User's Guide
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