Re: Micro-Partition Gotcha(for the group).

[Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Has anybody done this before?  When I purchased my 6.1 machine in Nov I was
told this was only possible if you setup your primary HD correctly so VIOS
could control it appropriately.  I hadn't much idea what the IBM rep was
talking about so I told him to just go with a "regular setup" without any
micro partitioning (which I didn't use that term back then because I didn't
know it was called that - or maybe he was referencing literal LPARS?)

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
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On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Lukas Beeler
<lukas.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 15:25, Wintermute, Sharon
> <Sharon.Wintermute@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > What is a micro partition? I have multiple LPARS on my system but I have
> never heard this term before.
>
> Micro-Partitioning is when you use only tenths of a CPU. You can
> partition 1 CPU machine, but then each partition only has 0.x CPUs. If
> you have a large machine and can give each LPAR it's own CPUs, you
> don't need micro partitioning.