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Learn about the PowerVM™ Express™ Edition.
The PowerVM Express Edition includes the following components of the PowerVM Editions (formerly known as Advanced POWER® Virtualization) hardware feature:
You can use the Express Edition in restricted environments at no cost. The Express Edition is available on some POWER6™ processor-based IBM® System p® servers. To use the Express Edition, the system must be managed by the Integrated Virtualization Manager.
With the Express Edition, you can create up to two client logical partitions that use virtual Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) and shared processors, also called Micro-Partitioning technology. If you want to create more than two client logical partitions that use shared processors or virtual SCSI, then you must purchase either the Standard or Enterprise Edition and enter the activation code. (Virtual Ethernet is available to all client logical partitions.)