The following chart shows two IBM i operating system partitions using 14GB of memory and
1.7 processors each served by 1 VIOS partition using 2GB of memory and .6 processors. The
Commercial Performance Workload was running the same amount of transactions on each of the
partitions for the same time intervals. Although there is an observed cost for VIOS to manage
multiple partitions, VIOS was able to balance services to the two partitions. Experimenting with
the number of processors and memory assigned to the partitions might yield a better environment
for other workloads.
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