The system, provided on the blade server unit of BladeSymphony, can divide resources on physical servers into multiple logical partitions, enabling the optimization of software licensing fees and operation costs and increasing efficiency in use of the resources.
What does LPAR stand for?
LPAR stands for Logical Partition (mainframes)
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That hypervisor layer allows a much larger number of logical partitions to be put on a Power-based server than what was possible in the past.
The ability to run Symantec Enterprise Firewall directly on an iSeries logical partition now gives our customers an even greater level of e-business security.
Regardless of the resident operating system, the host can have exclusive access to its own logical partition on the TrueSAN 6000FC solution, as well as shared access to other areas of the system.
On the IBM mainframe line, logical partitioning goes even further, allowing customers to put up to 15 logical partitions on a single machine with 12 real processors.