Live Partition Mobility gives you the ability to migrate a Partition from one Managed System to another.  The movement of data is transparent and will not create an outage to the client applications.

LPM can greatly reduce outages to applications caused by Hardware Maintenance and can also be used for performance management such as scaling up to a larger System.  System Maintenance that may require a shutdown of the Managed System no longer requires an outage of your applications.  The client LPAR’s are simply migrated to another Managed System, allowing you to perform Maintenance without an outage to your users.  After Maintenance has been completed, the Partitions can be moved back to the “primary” Managed System.

Live Partition Mobility can be used to move Partitions from a Server with resource constraints to a Server or Servers that have more resources.  Once the workload has been completed, the Partition can be moved back to the original System, freeing up resources on the target System.

What Live Partition Mobility Isn’t

While LPM provides higher availability by reducing planned outages, it is not an HA solution like HACMP.  With Live Partition Mobility, the operating System image is also transferred to the takeover System.  If the problem is related to the operating System, it will still exist once the Partition has been moved.

HACMP provides a higher level of security for your data with added redundancy by switching to a different Operating System image.

Evolving Solutions held its 7th Annual Technology Update on August 4th. Our focus this year included a technical presentation on Live Partition Mobility, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and an update on Server Virtualization.

One of our Senior Consultants, Ralph Johnson, presented on the features and benefits of utilizing Live Partition Mobility. Ralph has successfully completed installing and configuring systems in our Innovation Center to demonstrate Live Partition Mobility. If you would like to schedule a demo in our lab, please give us a call.

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure is causing quite a stir in the IT community. Through our partnership with VMware, we are able to offer our clients a look and a test drive on this exciting technology. With the focus today on cost saving, VDI is a technology worth looking in to.

Server Virtualization has been around for a few years and continues to be a “hot” topic for our clients and partners. The values of virtualization in your server and storage environment increases the ease of managing a data center and can give you back time in your day for strategic planning.