Chapter 3. Virtualization - IBM Power 570 Technical Overview And Introduction

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Virtualization
Chapter 3.
As you look for ways to maximize the return on your IT infrastructure investments,
consolidating workloads becomes an attractive proposition.
IBM Power Systems combined with PowerVM technology are designed to help you
consolidate and simplify your IT environment. Key capabilities include:
Improve server utilization and sharing I/O resources to reduce total cost of ownership and
make better use of IT assets.
Improve business responsiveness and operational speed by dynamically re-allocating
resources to applications as needed — to better match changing business needs or
handle unexpected changes in demand.
Simplify IT infrastructure management by making workloads independent of hardware
resources, thereby enabling you to make business-driven policies to deliver resources
based on time, cost and service-level requirements.
This chapter discusses the virtualization technologies and features on IBM Power Systems:
POWER Hypervisor
Logical Partitions
Dynamic Logical Partitioning
Shared Processor Pool
PowerVM
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