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apaprocki on July 2, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: IBM System 38 (1984) [pdf]

... and they're still called LPARs today on the modern boxes :)

ghuntley on July 2, 2015 [–]

Correct and since 2007 LPAR's have been able to be xfered between hosts in a fashion similar to VMotion.

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247460.pdf

Additionally there are WPARs as well which are essentially application/workload management containers :-)

https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/s...

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