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Virtual Partition Manager
Planning for VPM ...
Automatic processor balancing between i5/OS and Linux partition is supported
Thru uncapped shared processor
Dynamic movements of resources (processor,memory and I/O) is not supported
Partition must be restarted for the changes to take effects
Capacity on Demand (CoD) is not enabled thru DST/SST
Only permanently activated processors can be allocated
Partition configuration cannot be saved
Hardcopy prints must be kept to re-create partitions
Migration to HMC is not available
If a HMC is deployed in a future stage, Linux partitions must be re-created
Data stored thru virtual I/O on i5/OS is preserved
Configurations screens are available only in english
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Virtual Partition Manager
Virtual Partition Manager vs. Hardware Management Console
VPM HMC
Operatingsystems supported i5/OSand Linux i5/OS,Linux and AIX
Maximumnumber of partitions 5(1x i5/OS, 4x Linux) 254
Uncappedpartition support Yes Yes
Dynamicresource movement No Yes
I/Osupport for Linux Virtual Virtualand Direct
Maximumnumber of ethernet connections 4 4096
Maximumvirtual disk per partition 64TB 64TB
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