After releasing a paper about best practices and one about Virtual I/O Server Deployment Examples, IBM Redbook department now releases a foundation book (488 pages) about System p5 POWER virtualization configuration:
This IBM Redbook provides an introduction to Advanced POWER Virtualization on IBM System p5 servers.The Advanced POWER Virtualization feature is a combination of hardware and software that supports and manages the virtual I/O environment on POWER5 and POWER5+ systems.
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Though the discussion in this IBM Redbook is focused on System p5 hardware and the AIX 5L operating system, the basic concepts extend themselves to the i5/OS and Linux operating systems, as well as the IBM System i5 platform…
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 – Introduction
- Chapter 2 – Virtualization technologies on System p servers
- Chapter 3 – Setting up the Virtual I/O Server: the basics
- Chapter 4 – Setting up virtual I/O: advanced
- Chapter 5 – System management
- Chapter 6 – Partition Load Manager
Read the whole book at source.