Micro-Partitioning performance implications

You might experience a positive or a negative impact on performance with Micro-Partitioning.

The benefit of Micro-Partitioning is that it allows for increased overall utilization of system resources by applying only the required amount of processor resource needed by each partition. But due to the overhead associated with maintaining online virtual processors, consider the capacity requirements when choosing values for the attributes.

For optimal performance, ensure that you create the minimal amount of partitions, which decreases the overhead of scheduling virtual processors.

CPU-intensive applications, like high performance computing applications, might not be suitable for a Micro-Partitioning environment. If an application use most of its entitled processing capacity during execution, you should use a dedicated processor partition to handle the demands of the application.