AIX 5.2 Workload partitions for AIX 7

Feature Benefits
Simple backup / restore consolidation
Easily convert your AIX 5.2 Logical Partitions on legacy hardware to run inside of Workload Partitions on AIX 7
  • Reduce the hardware maintenance, energy and floor space expenses of maintaining groups of poorly utilized obsolete servers by allowing workloads to be consolidated on more efficient POWER7 processor-based servers
  • Simplify administrative workload of consolidating legacy environments
Enablement for Live Application Mobility and Live Partition Mobility
AIX 5.2 running in a WPARs can be relocated between systems without restarting the application
  • Potential for improved system utilization and application performance by enabling more efficient load balancing
  • Designed to improve application availability by reducing outages needed for planned system maintenance
  • Can enable energy savings by moving workloads off of underused servers, allowing them to be powered off
Includes limited support for the AIX 5.2 operating system
The Software Maintenance Agreement (SWMA) for the AIX 5.2 Workload Partitions includes phone and limited defect support for the AIX 5.2 operating system
  • Meet regulatory requirements requiring defect support for the operating system
  • Includes support for new fixes for AIX 5.2 for critical security and data integrity problems
  • Avoid the complexity of traditional extended support contracts for legacy AIX releases
  • Easy to order standard SWMA – no special bid extended support contracts required
Supported by Workload Partitions Manager for AIX
Use cross systems management capabilities of the WPAR Manager 
  • Consistent management of WPARs along with other IBM Systems Director managed resources
  • Leverage IBM Systems Director common user interface to simplify administration
  • AIX 5.2 WPARs can be relocated via Live Application Mobility with almost no impact to application availability
Exploitation of POWER7 features
Processes running in AIX 5.2 WPARs can exploit POWER7 features
  • Potential greater throughput for multi-threaded applications due to Simultaneous Multithreading 4 (SMT4) capability of POWER7 processors and capabilities such as MicroPartitioning and Virtual I/O

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