Linux Support - IBM Power Systems E870 Technical Overview And Introduction

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Feature
Virtual Tape
Logical partitioning
DLPAR I/O adapter add/remove
DLPAR processor add/remove
DLPAR memory add
DLPAR memory remove
Micro-Partitioning
Shared dedicated capacity
Multiple Shared Processor Pools
VIOS
Integrated Virtualization
Manager
Suspend/resume and
a
hibernation
Shared Storage Pools
Thin provisioning
b
Active Memory Sharing
Active Memory Deduplication
Live Partition Mobility
Simultaneous multithreading
(SMT)
Active Memory Expansion
a. At the time of writing, Suspend/Resume is not available. Check with your IBM System Services Representative
(SSR) for availability on POWER8 platforms.
b. At the time of writing, Active Memory Sharing when used with Live Partition Mobility is not supported. Check with
your IBM SSR for availability on POWER8 platforms.
c. At the time of writing, Live Partition Mobility for IBM i is not supported. Check with your IBM SSR for availability on
POWER8 platforms.
For more information about specific features for Linux, see the following website:
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/lnxinfo/v3r0m0/index.jsp?topic=%2Fliaam%2Fsuppor
tedfeaturesforlinuxonpowersystemsservers.htm

3.4.9 Linux support

The IBM Linux Technology Center (LTC) contributes to the development of Linux by providing
support for IBM hardware in Linux distributions. In particular, the LTC has available tools and
code for the Linux communities to take advantage of the POWER8 technology and develop
POWER8 optimized software.
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IBM Power Systems E870 and E880 Technical Overview and Introduction
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