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76 IBM Power 570 Technical Overview and Introduction
3.1 POWER Hypervisor
Combined with features designed into the POWER6 processors, the POWER Hypervisor
delivers functions that enable other system technologies, including logical partitioning
technology, virtualized processors, IEEE VLAN compatible virtual switch, virtual SCSI
adapters, and virtual consoles. The POWER Hypervisor is a basic component of the system’s
firmware and offers the following functions:
Provides an abstraction between the physical hardware resources and the logical
partitions that use them.
Enforces partition integrity by providing a security layer between logical partitions.
Controls the dispatch of virtual processors to physical processors (see 3.2.3, “Processing
mode” on page 79).
Saves and restores all processor state information during a logical processor context
switch.
Controls hardware I/O interrupt management facilities for logical partitions.
Provides virtual LAN channels between logical partitions that help to reduce the need for
physical Ethernet adapters for inter-partition communication.
Monitors the Service Processor and will perform a reset/reload if it detects the loss of the
Service Processor, notifying the operating system if the problem is not corrected.
The POWER Hypervisor is always active, regardless of the system configuration and also
when not connected to the HMC. It requires memory to support the resource assignment to
the logical partitions on the server. The amount of memory required by the POWER
Hypervisor firmware varies according to several factors. Factors influencing the POWER
Hypervisor memory requirements include the following:
Number of logical partitions.
Number of physical and virtual I/O devices used by the logical partitions.
Maximum memory values given to the logical partitions.
The minimum amount of physical memory to create a partition is the size of the system’s
Logical Memory Block (LMB). The default LMB size varies according to the amount of
memory configured in the CEC as shown in Table 3-1.
Table 3-1 Configurable CEC memory-to-default Logical Memory Block size
But in most cases, the actual requirements and recommendations are between 256 MB and
512 MB for AIX, Red Hat, and Novell SUSE Linux. Physical memory is assigned to partitions
in increments of Logical Memory Block (LMB).
The POWER Hypervisor provides the following types of virtual I/O adapters:
Virtual SCSI
Configurable CEC memory Default Logical Memory Block
Less than 4 GB 16 MB
Greater than 4 GB up to 8 GB 32 MB
Greater than 8 GB up to 16 GB 64 MB
Greater than 16 GB up to 32 GB 128 MB
Greater than 32 GB 256 MB
- Redpaper 1
- October 2008 3
- First Edition (October 2008) 4
- Contents 5
- Contents v 7
- Trademarks 10
- Become a published author 12
- Comments welcome 13
- General description 15
- 1.1 System specifications 17
- 1.2 Physical package 17
- 1.3 System features 18
- 1.3.2 Memory features 20
- 1.3.4 I/O drawers 22
- Front Rear 24
- 1.4 System racks 26
- Physical specifications 28
- Client responsibilities 28
- 1.4.5 Rack-mounting rules 31
- 1.4.6 Useful rack additions 32
- 1.4.7 OEM rack 33
- Architecture and technical 37
- 2.1 The POWER6 processor 38
- Figure 2-2 POWER6 processor 39
- 2.1.1 Decimal floating point 40
- 2.3 Processor cards 43
- 2.3.2 Processor clock rate 44
- 2.4 Memory subsystem 45
- 2.4.4 OEM memory 48
- 2.5 System buses 49
- 2.5.2 Service processor bus 50
- 2.6 Internal I/O subsystem 51
- 2.6.1 System ports 52
- POWER6 chip 56
- 2.8 PCI adapters 57
- 2.8.1 LAN adapters 58
- 2.8.2 SCSI and SAS adapters 58
- 2.8.3 iSCSI 59
- IBM iSCSI adapters 60
- 2.8.4 Fibre Channel adapter 61
- 2.8.5 Graphic accelerators 61
- 2.9 Internal storage 62
- 2.9.2 Split backplane 63
- 2.9.3 Internal media devices 63
- 2.10 External I/O subsystems 64
- 7311 Model D11 features 65
- PCI-X Bridge 66
- PCI-X slots 67
- SPCN cabling examples 68
- YO Cable 71
- IBM AIX 5L 77
- IBM AIX V6.1 77
- Linux for System p systems 78
- 2.13 Service information 79
- 2.14 System firmware 81
- System firmware download site 82
- 2.14.1 Service processor 84
- System Management Services 86
- Open Firmware 87
- Virtualization 89
- 3.1 POWER Hypervisor 90
- Virtual SCSI 91
- Virtual Ethernet 91
- Virtual (TTY) console 91
- 3.2 Logical partitioning 92
- 3.2.3 Processing mode 93
- Dedicated mode 94
- Shared dedicated mode 94
- Shared mode 94
- 3.3 PowerVM 95
- Shared Ethernet Adapter 96
- Chapter 3. Virtualization 83 97
- 3.3.3 PowerVM Lx86 99
- Supported Operating Systems 100
- Chapter 3. Virtualization 87 101
- Chapter 3. Virtualization 89 103
- 3.4 System Planning Tool 105
- Continuous availability and 107
- Component failure rates 108
- 4.2 Availability 109
- Persistent deallocation 110
- Memory protection 113
- Memory page deallocation 114
- Memory control hierarchy 114
- Memory deconfiguration 115
- L2 Array Protection 116
- 4.2.4 PCI Error Recovery 117
- 4.3 Serviceability 118
- 4.3.1 Detecting errors 119
- Error checkers 120
- Fault Isolation Registers 120
- 4.3.2 Diagnosing problems 121
- Boot-time 122
- Device drivers 122
- 4.3.3 Reporting problems 123
- Extended Error Data (EED) 124
- System dump handling 124
- Customer notify 124
- Call home 124
- Guiding light LEDs 125
- The operator panel 125
- Concurrent maintenance 126
- Blind-swap PCI adapters 126
- Firmware updates 126
- Repair and verify 127
- 4.5 Manageability 130
- Graphics terminal 134
- Example 4-1 135
- 4.6 Cluster solution 136
- Related publications 139
- Online resources 140
- How to get Redbooks 140
- Help from IBM 140
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