Power is virtualization without limits. Businesses are turning to PowerVM virtualization to consolidate multiple workloads onto fewer systems, increasing server utilization and reducing cost. PowerVM provides a secure and scalable virtualization environment for AIX, i and Linux applications built upon the advanced RAS features and leading performance of the Power Systems platform.

Highlights

• Reduce IT costs by consolidating diverse workloads onto Power Systems™ platforms
• Optimize utilization of enterprise IT resources to improve service levels and boost ROI
• Minimize the complexity of systems administration and automate standard processes
• Rapidly scale to deliver maximum system resources to the most demanding mission-critical workloads
• Maximize availability by moving live workloads between servers to eliminate planned downtime

Complexity can work its way into any IT infrastructure, driven by the rollout of new applications and unanticipated change. However, adding servers in response to each demand for new workloads drives the need for more datacenter space, power, cooling, network cabling, data storage and administrative resources. Such complexity leads to inefficiency. The answer is virtualization, which allows organizations to consolidate multiple operating systems and software stacks on a single platform.

PowerVM™ provides the industrial-strength virtualization solution for IBM Power Systems servers and blades. Based on more than a decade of evolution and innovation, PowerVM represents the state of the art in enterprise virtualization and is broadly deployed in production environments worldwide by most Power Systems owners.

The IBM Power Systems family of servers includes proven¹ workload consolidation platforms that help clients control costs while improving overall performance, availability and energy efficiency. With these servers and IBM PowerVM virtualization solutions, an organization can consolidate large numbers of applications and servers, fully virtualize its system resources, and provide a more flexible, dynamic IT infrastructure. In other words, IBM Power Systems with PowerVM deliver the benefits of virtualization without limits.

PowerVM provides industrial-strength virtualization for AIX®, IBM i, and Linux® environments on IBM POWER® processor-based systems. IBM Power Systems servers integrated with PowerVM technology are designed to allow clients to build a dynamic infrastructure that will help them to reduce costs, manage risk and improve service levels.

PowerVM also offers a secure and resilient virtualization environment, built on the advanced RAS (reliability, availability and serviceability) features, extreme scalability and leadership performance² of the IBM Power Systems platform, based on the industry-leading POWER6® and POWER7® processors.

Operating system versions supported

• AIX 5.3, AIX 6.1 and AIX 7
• IBM i 6.1 and IBM i 7.1
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (when announced by Red Hat)
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11

Hardware platforms supported

• IBM Power Systems with POWER5™, POWER6® and POWER7® processors