Cloud and virtualization
Many improvements and enhancements have been implemented since the first logical partition was allowed in the IBM i family of servers. This chapter describes the virtualization options that are available in IBM i 7.2 running on IBM Power Systems. Additionally, with the industry-wide push for “the cloud,” this chapter covers topics that are available to help implement and manage IBM i in a cloud environment.
This chapter describes the following topics:

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