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Power has LPARs, so why bother?

If I use Linux on Power by choice, I'm either doing OLAP/OLTP or I'm an AIX shop that needs a few Linux boxes without the hassle of a completely different platform (x86) in the mix.

But I can't imagine anyone wants to use IBM Power to host a large number of Linux KVM VMs, that just doesn't make sense.

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It depends how large you are. Managing physical boxes in a datacenter can be very expensive. Being able to virtualize on any platform is a good thing, as you can decide your own balance of costs between physical space, energy, network gear, network people, operations. These physical costs are often overlooked when you're talking about hardware. It takes a lot of $ to operate your own data center.

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