Massive Virtualisation on the IBM Power 5 Systems (as we have at DCS) Implement the maximum virtualisation on a system (80 way) 8 Processor pSeries 570 2 4-U Units, 4 processors each Slides will be available afterwards Memory busses are slappppped together between the seperate systems, so up to 4 boxes can be slapped together. There is not so much noise that this can not be done, interesting. Memory can still not be dynamically added and removed here on Linux. Memory hotplug. So a lpar can only have a certain amount if memory, even if some other lpar is sitting idle it can not hand some to a busier system For the vioserver we can put linux on and have the linux capabilities on the vioserver such as file backed virtual disks, NAT based networking, etc. I want to put SLES9 on the VIOservers to have linux there The java server management system for the HMC can be run very remotely, so I could run it from my office rather than at the console. All graphical operations can be done from the console, find out how (who cares if it is not pretty), Ask santi about where to get the documentation for doing this stuff. Can set up partitions from a script Create guest filesystems on the vio server to set up each partition, another reason to use linux on he vioserver as it gives us he tools we are used to With all 80 partitons active, even though they are idle it is not much slower than with only one active partition. some of the hangups they had reiser images loopback mounted on the vio server, this could be dangerous as reiser on the underlying fs also means things may break on fsck with some options.