IBM® PowerVM® virtualization technology is a combination of hardware and software that supports and manages the virtual environments on POWER5-, POWER5+, IBM POWER6®, and IBM POWER7®-based systems.

PowerVM is available on IBM Power Systems™, and IBM BladeCenter® servers as optional Editions, and is supported by the IBM AIX®, IBM i, and Linux operating systems. You can use this set of comprehensive systems technologies and services to aggregate and manage resources by using a consolidated, logical view. Deploying PowerVM virtualization and IBM Power Systems offers you the following benefits:

• Lower energy costs through server consolidation
• Reduced cost of your existing infrastructure
• Better management of the growth, complexity, and risk of your infrastructure

This IBM Redbooks® publication is an extension of IBM PowerVM Virtualization Introduction and Configuration, SG24-7940. It provides an organized view of best practices for managing and monitoring your PowerVM environment concerning virtualized resources managed by the Virtual I/O Server.

Chapter 1. PowerVM Introduction

Part 1. Processor Virtualization

Chapter 2. Shared Processor Pool

Chapter 3. Multiple Shared Processor Pools

Chapter 4. POWER processor compatibility modes

Part 2. Memory Virtualization

Chapter 5. Active Memory Sharing

Chapter 6. Active Memory Deduplication

Chapter 7. Active Memory Expansion

Part 3. I/O Virtualization

Chapter 8. Network virtualization

Chapter 9. Storage Virtualization

Chapter 10. Shared storage pools

Part 4. Virtual I/O Server

Chapter 11. Virtual I/O Server

Part 5. Managed Systems Virtualization

Chapter 12. \Dynamic Logical Partitioning

Chapter 13. Partition Suspend and Resume

Chapter 14. Live Partition Mobility

Chapter 15. Dynamic Platform Optimizer

Chapter 16. Active System Optimizer and Dynamic System Optimizer for AIX

Part 6. Enterprise management tools

Chapter 17. IBM Systems Director

Chapter 18. Tivoli Systems Management integration

Part 7. Appendix

Appendix A. AIX disk and NIB network checking and recovery script