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90 IBM Power 570 Technical Overview and Introduction
Inventory and automated discovery
Complete inventory of WPAR instances deployed on all servers with WPAR Manager
Agents installed whether created by the WPAR Manager or through the command line
interface (CLI) on the local system console
3.3.7 Operating System support for PowerVM
Table 3-3 lists AIX 5L, AIX V6.1 and Linux support for PowerVM.
Table 3-3 PowerVM features supported by AIX and Linux
1 Dynamic memory removal is not supported by Linux at the time of writing.
2 On selected models available.
Note: The IBM PowerVM Workload Partition Manager for AIX 6 is a separate, optional
product as part of the IBM PowerVM suite (5765-WPM).
Feature AIX V5.3 AIX V6.1 RHEL V4.5
for POWER
RHEL V5.1
for POWER
SLES V10
SP1 for
POWER
DLPAR
operations
1
YYYYY
Capacity
Upgrade on
Demand
2
YYYYY
Micro-
Partitioning
YYYYY
Shared
Dedicated
Capacity
YYNYY
Multiple
Shared
Processor
Pools
YYNYY
Virtual I/O
Server
YYYYY
IVMYYYYY
Virtual SCSIYYYYY
Virtual
Ethernet
YYYYY
Live Partition
Mobility
YYNYY
Workload
Partitions
NYNNN