If you’re interested in having Mainline assist you in evaluating this or any other technology, please contact your Mainline Account Executive, or contact Mainline directly. Lastly, PowerVC currently does not support RHEV, nor the Ubuntu KVM, for provisioning. As such, they are supported either by the distributor support structure or by IBM TSS Linux Support options. These scenarios pertain to the LC and L servers since the KVM versions will require OPAL as the hypervisor.Ī couple more points: The KVM versions are part of the distributions. It is possible that SUSE can run as a guest in the RHEV and Ubuntu versions, but that may not be a supported environment. SUSE does not ship a supported version of KVM for Power Systems.
If you are using Ubuntu, then the KVM in the Ubuntu distribution should be used. So, if you are using Red Hat, then RHEV (Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, a Red Hat distribution of KVM included in the RHEL distribution) is the KVM implementation you want to use. IBM has recently withdrawn PowerKVM, so you are now directed to use the KVM of the distribution you are using. So, you want to use a low-cost virtualization “engine” and stay with “open source?” The choice, therefore, is KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine… not keyboard, video, mouse). If you want it to be a bootable disk, then include a system disk plus boot area (tick System Reserved label). I will only discuss KVM here, but do realize that PowerVM is supported on the L, Scale-out, and Enterprise Power Systems servers only, not on the LC servers, as the LC servers contain OPAL only PowerVM requires pHYP. Include any disk/volume you want to virtualize. With Power Systems’ performance and capacity, it is logical that in many instances the systems should be virtualized. Linux on Power is for sure gaining usage.
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