Performance Optimization and Tuning Techniques for IBM Power Systems Processors Including IBM POWER8

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The IBM POWER Hypervisor

This chapter introduces the POWER8 Hypervisor and describes some of the technical details for this product. It covers the following topics:

•3.1, “Introduction to PowerVM” on page 58

•3.2, “Power Systems virtualization with PowerVM” on page 59

•3.3, “Introduction to KVM Virtualization” on page 67

•3.4, “Related publications” on page 68

3.1 Introduction to PowerVM

Power Virtualization was introduced in POWER5 processor-based systems, so there are many reference materials that are available that cover all three resources ...

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