Chapter 4. Planning for virtualization and RAS in POWER7 high-end servers 115
Virtual SCSI adapters
Virtual Fibre Channel (FC) adapters
Virtual console (TTY)
We discuss these virtual resources in separate chapters throughout this publication.
Most of these virtualization features are managed by the Power hypervisor, which provides a
logical mapping between the physical hardware and the virtual resources. This hypervisor
functionality requires memory and CPU cycles to function. The hypervisor uses several of the
server resources. Remember to check that there are resources available for any virtual
request, for example, dynamic LPAR operations ...
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