Chapter 3. Virtualization; Power Hypervisor - IBM Power 780 Technical Overview And Introduction

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 offer key capabilities that can help
you consolidate and simplify your IT environment:
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, so you can 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

POWER processor modes
Active Memory Expansion
PowerVM
System Planning Tool
POWER Version 2.2 enhancements
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