IBM PowerVM is a virtualization solution for AIX environments on IBM POWER technology. In the IBM PowerVM environment, multiple logical partitions (LPARs) can be carved in a physical server. The physical system is also called the managed system. The LPARs can be assigned physical or virtual resources. The Virtual I/O Server is a dedicated partition and is a software appliance with which you can associate physical resources and that allows you to share these resources among multiple client logical partitions. The Virtual I/O Server can use both virtualized storage and network adapters. The managed system, LPARs, and the resources are managed using the Hardware Management Console (HMC) appliance sitting outside the physical frame.

Veritas InfoScale products are supported in the following components of the IBM PowerVM environment: