RE: Question on V5R3 LPAR mode

["McKown, John" <john.mckown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks all!

That's the problem that I've seen on lots of documentation. It gets out
of date FAST. I even went to the iSeries web site and read the "latest"
documentation there. But parts implied that this "Primary Partition"
still existed whereas other parts implied that it did not. I did finally
find a recent RedBook (SG25-8000) which bluntly stated that i5/OS V5R3
on an POWER5 iSeries used the Service Element and that the hipervisor
was moved from SLIC to firmware.


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John McKown
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> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 3:18 PM
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> Subject: Re: Question on V5R3 LPAR mode
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> 
> With V5R3, there is no more primary  partition as with the 
> zSeries.I can
> confirm that since we have bith V5R1 and V5R3 LPAR installed.
> 
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> >>> john.mckown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 2004-11-30 15:44:27 >>>
> Me again, the know-nothing newbie that MAY be getting an iSeries.
> 
> This is a question on running in LPAR mode. One of the other guys here
> is
> reading a RedBook about Performance Management on the iSeries. It said
> something about Primary and Secondary Partitions. In particular, it
> said
> that you have one "Primary" partition. If the OS in that partition
> fails,
> then all other partitions fail.
> 
> Looking at the V5R3 stuff, so far, it appears that this is no longer
> true.
> 
> So: with i5/OS V5R3, is there a "Primary Partition", an 
> outage on which
> will
> terminate the systems in all other partitions? This is definately
> different
> than zSeries where the hypervisor does not depend in any way on any
> LPAR.
> 
> Inquiring minds want to know <grin>.
> 
> 
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> John McKown
> Senior Systems Programmer
> UICI Insurance Center
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