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IBM BladeCenter PS700, PS701, and PS702 Technical Overview and Introduction
For additional information about NPIV, see the following resources:
򐂰 PowerVM Migration from Physical to Virtual Storage, SG24-7825
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247825.html
򐂰 IBM PowerVM Virtualization Managing and Monitoring, SG24-7590
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247590.html
NPIV is supported in PowerVM Express, Standard, and Enterprise Editions on the IBM
POWER7 processor-based systems.
3.3.8 Supported PowerVM features by operating system
Table 3-7 summarizes the PowerVM features that are supported by the operating systems
and that are compatible with the POWER7 processor-based blade servers.
Table 3-7 PowerVM features supported on AIX, IBM i, and Linux operating systems
Feature AIX
V5.3 AIX
V6.1 IBM i
6.1.1 SLES
10 SP3 SLES
11 SP1 RHEL
5.5
Dynamic simultaneous
multithreading (SMT) Yes
a
a. Support for only two threads
Yes
b
b. AIX 6.1 up to TL4 SP2 supports only two threads, and supports four threads as of TL4 SP3
Yes
c
c. IBM i 6.1.1 and later support SMT4
Yes
a
Yes Yes
DLPAR I/O adapter add/remove Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
DLPAR processor add/remove Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
DLPAR memory add Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
DLPAR memory remove Yes Yes Yes No Yes No
Micro-Partitioning Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Shared Dedicated Capacity Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Virtual I/O Server Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
IVM Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Virtual SCSI Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Virtual Ethernet Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
NPIV Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Live Partition Mobility Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Active Memory Sharing No Yes Yes No Yes No
Note: Most of the features listed in Table 3-7 require that IVM and VIOS be installed.
Native OS does not support the functions described in Table 3-7.