An interesting description of the technology from the latest e-Server magazine:
"The new IBM* Virtualization Engine*, made possible by the POWER* Hypervisor, combines existing offerings, new technologies, new consoles, runtimes and more. The multiplatform functionality of the POWER Hypervisor firmware unites for the first time many disparate technologies previously separated due to differences in OSs and platforms. "The Virtualization Engine augments IT infrastructure simplification by reducing management complexity and delivering integrated virtualization technologies and services onto a single server or across multiple platforms. The Virtualization Engine consists of two primary components: IBM Virtualization Engine Systems Technologies and IBM Virtualization Engine Systems Services. Together, these components work to address the virtualization needs of an on demand operating environment. "Virtualization Engine Systems Technologies offers dynamic logical partitioning (DLPAR), which features enhanced functions that allow up to 254 partitions versus the 32 partitions supported previously, and allows users to create uncapped partitions and partitions (sic) on the fly. With the enhanced VEST, Capacity on Demand (Cod) extends to memory, offering customers the option to permanently or temporarily activate dormant memory when needed or acquire temporary capacity in a prepaid format. VEST also feature Virtual Ethernet, which allows partitions to communicate within a high-speed virtualized network while maintaining outside access via routing through a single set of physical I/O devices, and multithreaded CPUs, which allows applications to increase overall resource utilization by virtualizing multiple physical CPUs through multithreading. "For VESS - currently being previewed by IBM for future availability - offerings include IBM Director Multiplatform, Enterprise Workload Manager (WLM), systems provisioning and IBM Grid Toolbox for Multiplatforms 3.0. The VESS take advantage of both a common runtime as well as a common console (VEC), leveraging existing IBM technologies to provide consistency and commonality of use across the system services. The VEC presents and delivers the overall launch pad for the engine. The console acts as an intuitive, Web-based interface that brings VESS together in one place, providing real-time monitoring capabilities that provide updates on the health of servers and storage media in an IBM cross-platform environment." * - Trademarks of their respective owners ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
