IBM PowerVM

As you look for ways to maximize the return on your IT infrastructure investments, consolidating workloads onto a single larger system becomes an attractive proposition. PowerVM™ is the family of technologies, capabilities and offerings that deliver industry-leading virtualization on IBM POWER™ processor-based systems.

IBM Power™ Systems servers coupled with PowerVM technology are designed to help you consolidate and simplify your IT environment. Key capabilities include:

• Improve server utilization and sharing I/O resources to reduce total cost of ownership and make better use of IT assets.
• Improve business responsiveness and operational speed by dynamically re-allocating resources to applications as needed — to better match changing business cycles or handle unexpected surge in demand.
• Simplify IT infrastructure management by making workloads independent of hardware resources, thereby enabling clients to make business-driven policies to deliver resources based on time, cost and service-level requirements.

You can employ virtualization in many ways to achieve improvements in efficiency and flexibility. Some of these applications include:

Server consolidation of several environments including:

• Underutilized servers enabled by PowerVM fine tuning granularity capabilities.
• Mixed workloads enabled by PowerVM LPAR, dynamic LPAR, and Shared Pool flexibility features.
• Applications with varied and dynamic resource requirements enabled by PowerVM Hypervisor and on demand capabilities.

Rapid deployment of new workloads enabled by PowerVM profiles and management processes:

• Greater exploitation and fault avoidance of I/O devices enabled by PowerVM Virtual I/O capabilities.
• Lower cost, higher performance interconnect capabilities enabled by PowerVM Virtual LAN support.

Application development and testing in secure domains enabled by PowerVM partition isolation and security features.

Support multiple operating system environments for testing, migration, or application optimization with PowerVM multi-operating system support:

• Virtual BladeCenter® to provide a single server "blade-like" implementation of parallel workloads with dynamics to support on demand application needs enabled by PowerVM dynamic logical partitioning.
• Low cost approach to selected business continuity solutions with simplified management enabled by the combined features of PowerVM.