Re: Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

[m.roth@xxxxxxxxx]

John R Pierce wrote:
> On 03/04/11 11:59 AM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>> I'm looking forward to the new cgroups and KVM.  This will give it
>>> >  some capabilities similar to AIX virtual partitions which can divvy
>>> > up  CPUs at a fine resolution.
>> Really? So IBM ported VM into native AIX? I missed that.
>
> IBM Power servers since the Power4+ CPU (they are up to Power7 now) have
> hardware partitioning support, commonly known as LPAR.  LPAR can be
> divided in units of 1/10th of a CPU.   The software to manage this is
> now called PowerVM (its been called other names in the past, not all
> polite).
<snip>
Neat! Thanks - around '06 I was working as a developer on a big AIX
system, but never administered one.

         mark (who worked under VM on a mainframe, years back)

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