The IBM RedBook department published a new paper about the virtualization capabilities offered by System p5 servers:

This IBM Redpaper provides best practices for planning, installing, maintaining, and operating the functions available using the Advanced POWER Virtualization feature on IBM System p5 servers.
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This paper begins where Advanced POWER Virtualization on IBM System p5, SG24-7940, ends by adding additional samples and scenarios harvested by a select team that works at client and outsourcing sites, running both small and large installations. The experiences contained within are select best practices from real-life experience.

A working understanding of the Advanced POWER Virtualization feature and logical partitioning and IBM AIX 5L is required, as well as a basic understanding of network and VLAN tagging…

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 – Introduction
• Chapter 2 – Administration, backup, and restore
• Chapter 3 – Networking
• Chapter 4 – Storage
• Chapter 5 – Performance and planning

Read the whole paper at source.