The Partitioning Continuum at a Glance
This section provides an executive summary level of detail for the partitioning continuum. Later sections will provide a bit more detail and later chapters provide examples of how to set up each type of partition.
What Is Partitioning?
As we saw in the last chapter, the Adaptive Enterprise is all about pooling and sharing of system resources by running many workloads on the same system. However, this can sometimes be challenging because:
One or more of the applications would consume more than its fair share of system resources
Applications have namespace collisions. They share the same network ports, log files, configuration files, named pipes, patch levels, kernel tunables, or any one of a number of other ...
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