[vinodinsat]

Ca anyone explain is it possible to partition a P505 server? Also is it possible to run VIO on the same? Thanks in advance.

[cdelgadop]

Hi

Any pSeries Power based server can be partitioned as lang as it have enough resources to do it. An p505 is one of the little brothers in the pSeries line but still you can create partitions.

I had a customer with a p505 with one Fibre Channel adapter connected to the organization's SAN. We were able to create 2 LPARS, one running on top of the internal disks and one running on top of the disks mapped to the HBA.

I'm not quite sure there's APV (Advanced Power Virtualziation) licensing for p505 (you can call your IBM vendor to verify). Assuming there's the option, you can then create one VIOS LPAR and many VIOS Clients applying virtualization of HW resources like Network Adapters and FC or SCSI adapters.

Hope this helps