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PowerVM Editions

Formerly Advanced POWER Virtualization (APV)

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  • PowerVM

    Using IBM PowerVM™ Editions can help simplify and optimize your IT infrastructure. Available on Power™ Systems servers and supported by the AIX®, Linux® and IBM i operating systems, this set of comprehensive systems technologies and services are designed to enable you to aggregate and manage resources via a consolidated, logical view.

Key Benefits of deploying PowerVM Editions and IBM Power Systems servers:

  • Go green and save: potentially cut energy costs by up to 65%1 through server consolidation
  • Potentially reduce the cost of existing infrastructure by up to 72%2
  • Manage growth, complexity and risk: potentially reduce server sprawl and administration while improving availability and application performance3
  • Leverage 40 years of leadership in virtualization from IBM


Choose the Edition that's right for you:

Features* Express Standard Enterprise
Maximum LPARs 3 / Server 10 / Core 10 / Core
Management IVM IVM, HMC IVM, HMC
Virtual I/O Server
Lx86
Shared Dedicated
Capacity*
Multiple Shared
Processor Pools
 
Live Partition Mobility    

Availability of PowerVM features by Power Systems models:

  JS12 JS22 520 520 520 550 550 570 570 575 595    
  7998-
60X
7998-
61X
8203-
EA4
9407-
M15
9408-
M25
8204-
EA8
9409-
M50
9117-
MMA
9406-
MMA
9125-
F2A
9119-
FHA
System p
POWER 5/5+
System i
POWER 5/5+
Express Edition                      
Standard Edition
Enterprise Edition      
Micro- partitioning
VIOS   **
IVM               *  
Lx86    
Live Partition Mobility      
Multiple Shared Processor Pools        
HMC    

* IVM is supported on POWER5/5+ System p 560Q servers and below and the BladeCenter JS21
** VIOS supports AIX and Linux partitions


Demo

Live Partition Mobility demo moving SAP applications between servers.




Additional information


Tivoli software demos

IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager pSeries and eServer p5.



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