Reminds me a bit of Virtual Partitions (VPARS) on HP-UX. Always found it cool to have an N4000 with two virtual partitions and then reboot the one partition whilst the other happily sits there running Oracle!
The main difference with this (apart from the architechture) is that each virtual machine has to have it's own hardware in VPARS, so for example if you were on an 8 way N4000 one possibility would be to have two 4 way virtual machines. You also need seperate network cards SCSI adapters, etc for each VPAR. Very very cool though.
We used this to Split each of the hardware partitions (NPARS) on a Superdome into two VPARS. The Superdome was a DR machine so we split it up to allow it to bhe used for QA and DR. A bit mind boggling to administer but very nice....
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Reminds me a bit of Virtual Partitions (VPARS) on HP-UX. Always found it cool to have an N4000 with two virtual partitions and then reboot the one partition whilst the other happily sits there running Oracle!
The main difference with this (apart from the architechture) is that each virtual machine has to have it's own hardware in VPARS, so for example if you were on an 8 way N4000 one possibility would be to have two 4 way virtual machines. You also need seperate network cards SCSI adapters, etc for each VPAR. Very very cool though.
We used this to Split each of the hardware partitions (NPARS) on a Superdome into two VPARS. The Superdome was a DR machine so we split it up to allow it to bhe used for QA and DR. A bit mind boggling to administer but very nice....