IBM PowerVM Live Partition Mobility

Overview

In this chapter, we provide an overview of Live Partition Mobility with a high-level description of its features.

This chapter contains the following topics:

•1.1, “Introduction” on page 2

•1.2, “Partition migration” on page 3

•1.3, “Cross-system flexibility is the requirement” on page 3

•1.4, “Live Partition Mobility is the answer” on page 5

•1.5, “Architecture” on page 6

•1.6, “Operation” on page 12

•1.7, “Combining mobility with other features” on page 14

1.1 Introduction

Live Partition Mobility allows you to migrate partitions that ...