This section tells you who to contact to order a new server or upgrade an existing server to run a guest partition.
The LPAR Validation tool emulates an LPAR configuration and validates the planned partitions. In addition, the LPAR Validation Tool allows you to test the placement of i5/OS® and Linux hardware within the system to ensure that the placement is valid. Refer to Logical Partitions for information on the LPAR Validation Tool (LVT).
Contact your IBM® marketing representative or IBM Business Partner to enter the order. You can enter the order by using the iSeries™ configurator. The configurator has been enhanced to support ordering IOAs without IOPs when you define a Linux partition.