The Systems with Partitions container that is located under Management Central allows you manage the logical partitions of all of the servers on the system from the central system.
With logical partitioning (LPAR), you can address multiple system requirements in a single system to achieve system consolidation, business unit consolidation, and mixed production or test environments. By itself, LPAR does not provide a significant availability increase. It can, however, be used to complement other availability strategies. Because each partition is treated as a separate system, you can run a single environment on a single system image. This can provide a more cost-efficient solution.
Access to logical partition information in System i® Navigator, dedicated service tools (DST), and system service tools (SST) requires either operations or administration authority to the logical partition function. In addition, you need remote panel authorization if you want to use the Operations Console remote panel for secondary partitions from your PC.
Logical partitions can be created using System i Navigator. To access logical partition functions, you must first configure the service tools server. Service tools are used to configure, manage, and service your models 8xx and earlier or logical partitions. If you want to manage logical partitions on servers other than model 8xx, you must use the Hardware Management Console (HMC). You need to use a service tools user ID with LPAR administrator authority.