IBM I5/OS - Manual (Page 55)

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Virtual Partition Manager
Planning for VPM ...
Automatic processor balancing between i5/OS and Linux partition is supported
Thru uncapped shared processor
Dynamic movements of resources (processor, memory and I/O) is not supported
Partition must be restarted for the changes to take effects
Capacity on Demand (CoD) is not enabled thru DST/SST
Only permanently activated processors can be allocated
Partition configuration cannot be saved
Hardcopy prints must be kept to re-create partitions
Migration to HMC is not available
If a HMC is deployed in a future stage, Linux partitions must be re-created
Data stored thru virtual I/O on i5/OS is preserved
Configurations screens are available only in english
No translation
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Virtual Partition Manager
Virtual Partition Manager vs. Hardware Management Console
VPM HMC
Operating systems supported i5/OS and Linux i5/OS, Linux and AIX
Maximum number of partitions 5 (1x i5/OS, 4x Linux) 254
Uncapped partition support Yes Yes
Dynamic resource movement No Yes
I/O support for Linux Virtual Virtual and Direct
Maximum number of ethernet connections 4 4096
Maximum virtual disk per partition 64 TB 64 TB
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