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The days of dedicating processors to a server because it "might" need them are over -â?? or at least they should be. The IBM Power processor virtualization technologies of micro-partitioning and shared processor pools benefit everyone from the CFO to the system administrator. A business can reclaim over half of its dedicated CPU capacity, realizing major savings, while an administrator's job of adding or removing processing resources comes down to a few mouse clicks. This article describes how the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) achieved both financial and operational benefits by transitioning from a dedicated to virtualized processor strategy while improving the quality of service to their end users. In addition to the benefits, this article also explains the risks of processor virtualization and procedures as well as tools that have been developed to manage such a dynamic environment.

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