Virtualization technology allows a single physical machine to be partitioned into multiple physical or logical partitions with each partition providing the look and feel of an independent operating system. Each partition is called a Virtual Environment. Each Virtual Environment represents a complete system, with processors, memory, networking and other system resources. Examples of some virtualization technologies include Sun Solaris Zones, AIX WPARs, and VMware.
IBM TDI 7.1 currently provides support for these virtualization technologies: