Manta Technologies, Inc., is offering a new course called PowerVM Concepts for IT personnel who operate, administer, or plan for the installation of IBM Power Systems or BladeCenter servers.

The course begins with an overview of LPAR concepts and applications. LPAR, or logical partitioning, is the name for using one physical system to run multiple operating systems concurrently, including one or more copies of IBM i, AIX, and/or Linux. The course then goes into greater detail on how specific resources are shared among partitions, including processors, memory, and I/O devices; and ways in which partitions can communicate with each other. Next the course covers special considerations for sharing resources among partitions and finally goes into the techniques used to create and manage partitions, including the Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM) for smaller systems and the Hardware Management Console (HMC) for larger systems.

PowerVM Concepts takes about three hours. You can either install the course on a PC or take it through Manta’s Internet-based delivery system. Prices start at $110 for a one-year, single-user MantaNow license or $179 for a CD license. A companion Student Reference Guide is available for $20. You can get more information by calling (303) 862-4562 or online at mantatech.com.