Secure Resource Partitions discussion

[Tim Nelson]

I have been investigating using some SRPs on my vPars and ran into a perceptual question.

Reading through a number of books and documents and the SRPs seem to be presented as what I would call vPars in vPars ( although they are not )
SRPs seem to be just an extention or maybe a subset of what Workload Manager does by creating work groups based on some identification and then allowing you to assign a percentage of the resources.

This is different than the vPar in a vPar which seems to be better decribed in documentation as Intergrity Virtual Machines, which allows completely virtuall servers on a partition to completely share the hardware but stay OS segregated.

My intent on all this was to create a number of virtual partitions withing a virtual partition that can share the io/cpu/mem ( due to current server hardware )without walking over each other. It seems that without at least an Itaniumm based server there is no current solution.

Any comments or like experiences/solutions ?