Operating System Support For Powervm - IBM Power 780 Technical Overview And Introduction

3.4.9 Operating system support for PowerVM

Table 3-5 summarizes the PowerVM features that are supported by the operating systems
compatible with the POWER7+ processor-based servers.
Table 3-5 Virtualization features supported by AIX, IBM i and Linux
Feature
Virtual SCSI
Virtual Ethernet
Shared Ethernet Adapter
Virtual Fibre Channel
Virtual Tape
Logical partitioning
DLPAR I/O adapter
add/remove
DLPAR processor
add/remove
DLPAR memory add
DLPAR memory remove
Micropartitioning
Shared dedicated capacity
Multiple Shared Processor
Pools
Virtual I/O Server
Integrated Virtualization
Manager
Suspend and resume
Shared Storage Pools
Thin provisioning
Active Memory Sharing
Active Memory
Deduplication
Live Partition Mobility
AIX AIX AIX IBM i
5.3 6.1 7.1 6.1.1
Yes Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes Yes
No Yes Yes No
Yes Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes Yes
No Yes Yes Yes
f g
No Yes Yes No
Yes Yes Yes No
IBM i RHEL RHEL
7.1 5.8 6.3
Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes
Yes No Yes
a
Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes
c
Yes Yes Yes
d
Yes Yes Yes
e e
Yes Yes Yes
Yes No Yes
h
Yes No Yes
i
Yes Yes Yes
SLES 10 SLES 11
SP4 SP2
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
No Yes
b a
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
No No
Yes No
Yes No
No Yes
No Yes
Yes Yes
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