Intel 170 Servers, AS/400 RISC Server, 7xx Servers manual CPU Vios

In following single partition Commercial Performance Workload runs the average VIOS CPU stayed under 40%. So we seem to have VIOS resource available but in a lot of customer environments communications and other resources are also running and these resources will also be routed through VIOS.

IBM i operating system CPU Usage While Running the Commercial Performance Workload

3 Dedicated Processors IBM i operating system Partition 1 Processor VIOS

3 Shared Processors IBM i operating system Partition 1 Processor VIOS

3.5 Shared Processors Partition IBM i operating system .5 Processor VIOS

	100
	90
% CPU	80
	70
	60
i5/OS	50
	40
	30
	20
	10
	20000	25000	30000	35000	40000	45000	50000	55000	60000
					Transactions/Minute

VIOS CPU Usage While Running the Commercial Performance Workload

3 Dedicated Processors IBM i operating system Partition 1 Processor VIOS

3 Shared Processors IBM i operating system Partition 1 Processor VIOS 3.5 Shared Processors IBM i operating system Partition .5 Processor VIOS

	50
% CPU	40
	30
VIOS
	20
	10
	20000	25000	30000	35000	40000	45000	50000	55000
				Transactions/Minute

IBM i 6.1 Performance Capabilities Reference - January/April/October 2008
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