PowerVM Standard Edition

PowerVM® Standard Edition includes features designed to allow businesses to increase system utilization; while helping to ensure applications continue to get the resources they need.

The PowerVM Standard Edition includes the following components of the PowerVM Editions hardware feature:

• Micro-Partitioning® technology
• N-Port ID Virtualization (NPIV)
• Partition suspend and resume is supported on POWER8® processor-based servers when the firmware is at level 8.4.0, or later.
• PowerVM NovaLink
• Shared processor pools
• Shared storage pools
• Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)
• Thin provisioning
• Virtual I/O Server (VIOS)
• Virtual Network Interface Controller adapters

You can use the Standard Edition with IBM® Power Systems™ servers.

In the 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, IVM.