PowerVM Enterprise Edition

PowerVM® Enterprise Edition includes all the features of PowerVM Standard Edition and two more capabilities called Active Memory™ Sharing and Live Partition Mobility.

PowerVM Enterprise Edition includes the following components of the PowerVM Editions hardware feature:

• PowerVM Active Memory Sharing
• Micro-Partitioning® technology
• Live Partition Mobility
  Note: On POWER7® processor-based servers with firmware at level 7.3, or later, you can evaluate Live Partition Mobility at no charge by using Trial Live Partition Mobility. Trial Live Partition Mobility requires an activation code. You must have a valid license and an active Software Maintenance contract for PowerVM Standard Edition to use Trial Live Partition Mobility.
• Partition suspend and resume is supported on POWER8® processor-based servers when the firmware is at level 8.4.0, or later.
• N-Port ID Virtualization (NPIV)
• PowerVM NovaLink
• Remote restart
• Shared processor pools
• Shared storage pools
• Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)
• Thin provisioning
• Virtual I/O Server (VIOS)
• Power Virtualization Performance (PowerVP™)
  Note: PowerVP requires the firmware to be at level 7.7, or later.
• Virtual Network Interface Controller adapters

You can use the Enterprise Edition with IBM® Power Systems™ servers. Like the Standard Edition, in a Hardware Management Console (HMC) environment, the IVM is disabled because the system is managed by the HMC. For servers that are not managed by an HMC, the VIOS becomes the management partition and provides the IVM to help you manage the system.

An activation code is required to enable the PowerVM Editions hardware feature. When you specify the 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 by using the HMC, or the IVM. This code differs from the PowerVM Standard Edition activation code. For example, you might have previously purchased the Standard Edition and enabled the feature on the system. Now you want the ability to move partitions from one system to another. To do so, you must purchase the Enterprise Edition and enter the activation code for the Enterprise Edition.