Understanding workloads
Learn about the different types of workloads in your environment.
Critical workloads
These are workloads that need to be online and running during a service operation. These workloads can be handled with Live Partition Mobility (LPM), PowerHA SystemMirror®, or application-level redundancy.
Noncritical workloads
These are workloads that can be taken offline during a service operation. These workloads can be handled with high availability functions (for example, LPM or PowerHA SystemMirror) or simply stopped during service operations.
Virtual I/O server (VIOS) partitions
VIOS partitions are part of the PowerVM® infrastructure and might not be a part of the customer workload. VIOS partitions can be powered off after the (critical and noncritical) customer workloads have been removed from the server for service.
