An Intro to AIX Virtualization.ppt

AIX Virtualization PerfMan Parm Manager An Intro to AIX Virtualization Philadelphia CMG September 14, 2007 Mark Vitale Generic disclaimer All trademarks referenced in this presentation are the properties of their respective companies. Most diagrams are from IBM Redbook SG24-7940-02 Advanced POWER Virtualization on IBM System p5: Introduction and Configuration A complete solution Dynamic hardware management Advanced POWER Virtualization (APV) Application balancing Partition Load Manager (PLM) “IRD” for AIX Workload Manager (WLM) “WLM” for AIX Availability High Availability Clustering Multi-Processing (HACMP) “parallel sysplex” for AIX Advanced POWER Virtualization available on System p5 and higher a marketing umbrella term for a number of hardware and software technologies: Dynamic LPAR (DLPAR) Shared Processor Pool (Micro-partitioning) Virtual IO Server (VIO) Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) Virtual LAN (VLAN) Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM) Capacity on Demand (CoD) Live Partition Mobility (POWER6 only) Shared Dedicated Capacity (POWER6 only) Overview Comparison of virtualization technologies POWER architecture RS/6000 (1990) POWER2 (1993) PowerPC (1993) POWER3 (1998) POWER4 (2001) first use in both AIX and AS/400 servers static LPAR dynamic LPAR (2002) no resource sharing POWER architecture (cont’d) POWER5 (2004) aka pSeries Hypervisor dual cores - Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) Processor Utilization Resource Register (PURR) shared processor pools (Micro-partitioning) (AIX 5.3 only) Virtual IO resource sharing POWER5+ (2005) aka p5 quad cores faster, smaller, more instructions POWER6 (2007) Live Partition Mobility Shared Dedicated Capacity dedicated processors may donate unused cycles to the shared processor pool POWER Hypervisor system firmware introduced w/ POWER5 always enabled (think “NO BASIC MODE”) key features Dynamic LPAR (DLPAR) allows dynamic reallocation of resources ... but only if the OS supports it! shared processor pool (Mic