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This paper describes how Micro-Partitioning™ technology can be employed on an IBM System p5™ 550 server with the Linux® operating system to set up flexible partitioned configurations for the performance robustness of Micro-Partitioning in a mixed transactional environment. The paper covers two scenarios and describes how special features of the System p5 with the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 9 SP3 operating system allow clients to consolidate different kinds of servers among independent partitions onto one IBM POWER5™ processor-based server and shows inter-partition performance effects. Understanding how shared resource Micro-Partitioning entitlements, weighting, and uncapped mode can help system administrators and system planners configure partitions that closely match their server workload requirements. These flexible performance characteristics make the System p5 with SLES 9 a powerful and versatile server consolidation option.
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