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Inventory and automated discovery
Complete inventory of WPAR instances deployed on all servers with WPAR Manager
Agents installed whether created by the WPAR Manager or through the command line
interface (CLI) on the local system console
Note: The IBM PowerVM Workload Partition Manager for AIX 6 is a separate, optional
product as part of the IBM PowerVM suite (5765-WPM).

3.3.7 Operating System support for PowerVM

Table 3-3 lists AIX 5L, AIX V6.1 and Linux support for PowerVM.
Table 3-3 PowerVM features supported by AIX and Linux
Feature
DLPAR
operations
Capacity
Upgrade on
Demand
Micro-
Partitioning
Shared
Dedicated
Capacity
Multiple
Shared
Processor
Pools
Virtual I/O
Server
IVM
Virtual SCSI
Virtual
Ethernet
Live Partition
Mobility
Workload
Partitions
1 Dynamic memory removal is not supported by Linux at the time of writing.
2 On selected models available.
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Y Y
1
Y Y
2
Y Y
Y Y
Y Y
Y Y
Y Y
Y Y
Y Y
Y Y
N Y
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Y Y
Y Y
Y Y
N Y
N Y
Y Y
Y Y
Y Y
Y Y
N Y
N N
SLES V10
SP1 for
POWER
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
N