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IBM PowerVM™ solutions are designed to help you reduce overall TCO and increase IT flexibility to meet anticipated and unanticipated processing capacity demands with a more streamlined system infrastructure.
IBM PowerVM Editions
For users ready to get the full value out of their server, IBM offers PowerVM Editions (formerly Advanced POWER™ Virtualization) providing the most complete virtualization functionality for AIX®, IBM i, and Linux® operating systems in the industry. PowerVM Editions include IBM Micro-Partitioning™ and Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) capabilities, designed to help you increase system utilization while applications continue to get the resources they need.
AIX 6 virtualization
The AIX® 6 operating system offers industry-leading virtualization functions such as PowerVM Workload Partitions (WPARs), which allow you to create isolated instances on top of a single AIX 6.1 image. In addition, AIX 6.1 features PowerVM Live Application Mobility, which allows you to move a running application from one server to another.
IBM i virtualization
The IBM i operating system offers built-in virtualization and workload management, allowing you to run multiple applications and components together on the same system, driving up system utilization and delivering a better return on your IT investments. IBM i also provides storage virtualization for IBM i, AIX, and Linux partitions as well as integrated System x and BladeCenter servers.
Linux virtualization
Designed for organizations and businesses with an expanding Web infrastructure, IBM Power™ Systems Solutions for Web-tier Consolidation consolidate Web and business applications from x86 servers onto fewer Power Systems servers to help lower energy consumption, reduce hardware and software costs, improve flexibility and increase server resource utilization.