Enhancements relating to partitioning in general have been made with this release.
New articles give instructions for using the latest, browser-based version of the Hardware Management Console (HMC).
This new article gives a brief description of the barier-synchronization register (BSR) that is located on certain POWER® technology-based processors, and how you can assign this resource to logical partitions using version 7 or later of the HMC.
This new article contains information on Host Ethernet Adapter (HEAs), which are physical Ethernet adapters that are integrated directly into the GX+ bus on a managed system. HEAs offer high throughput, low latency, and virtualization support for Ethernet connections.