Presenter: Fant Steele

Topic:Virtualization Components Available for Deploying Operating Systems on
Power Systems

Level: Introduction to Intermediate

The iSeries, pSeries® and Power servers have been able to host Linux and AIX for many years. With the move to POWER6 hardware and IBM i 6.1, we can now virtualize resources for IBM i as well. This session will serve as an introduction to the virtualization options available on Power systems. This session will
also compare and contrast the methods available for running multiple OS images on POWER6 both using virtualization as well as dedicated hardware. These options include direct I/O, I/O hosted by Virtual I/O
Server (VIOS), I/O hosted by IBM i and hybrid solutions using combinations of those.