The most popular innovation of IBM AIX Version 6.1 is clearly workload partitioning (WPARs). Once you get past the marketing hype, you'll need to determine the value that WPARs can provide in your environment. What can WPARs do that Logical Partitions (LPARs) could not? How and when should you use WPARs? Equally as important, when should you not use Workload Partitioning. Finally, how do you create, configure, and administer workload partitions?

For a very good introduction to WPARs, please refer to the following article: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-wpar61aix/ or download the PDF version here.

This article describes the differences between system and application WPARs, the various commands available, such as mkwpar, lswpar, startwpar and clogin. It also describes how to create and manage file systems and users, and it discusses the WPAR manager. It ends with an excellent list of references for further reading.



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