AIX Gives IBM Servers a 'Virtual' Look

Asked what sets the IBM offering apart from the other "virtual" server solutions available from companies such as SWsoft, VMware and even Sun Microsystems Inc., Harrell said the differentiator is its dynamic logical partitioning, which allows a "finer granularity of control extending to a single processor, single adapter and 256MB of memory, independent of where those resources are installed in a system."