<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">Logical Partitioning (LPAR) provides the significant capability to run multiple operating systems, each a partition on the same physical processor, memory, and I/O attachment configuration. LPAR is often discussed along with the concept of server consolidation. LPAR enables management across a single set of hardware and, when configured and managed correctly, can maximize efficient use of hardware resources all in a single place, often using resources in one partition when not needed by another partition. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">By its nature, LPAR is powerful, but, as the number and complexity of applications being run in each partition increases, can become complex to configure and to achieve anticipated performance expectations. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">The objective is to help you order and IBM deliver a hardware configuration and get that configuration up and running your planned partition configurations with good performance in as short a time as possible.</p>