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Learn about the PowerVM™ Standard Edition.
The PowerVM Standard Edition includes the following components of the PowerVM Editions hardware feature:
You can use the Standard Edition with POWER5™ and POWER6™ processor-based IBM® System p® servers, IBM System i® models, and some IBM BladeCenter® blade servers. However, Partition Load Manager is available only on POWER5-processor based systems.
In HMC environments, the Integrated Virtualization Manager is disabled because the system is managed by the HMC. For some blade servers and IBM System p servers that are not managed by an HMC, the Virtual I/O Server becomes the management partition and provides the Integrated Virtualization Manager to help you manage the system.
For IBM System p servers and IBM System i models, the Standard Edition requires an activation code to enable the PowerVM Editions hardware feature. When you specify the PowerVM Editions hardware feature with the initial system order, the firmware is activated to support the components of the feature. If you order the feature separately from the server, you can enter the code using the HMC or the Integrated Virtualization Manager. For IBM BladeCenter blade servers, the server includes the Standard Edition; you do not need an activation code.