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1Managing Workloads With Partitions  



OpenVMS customers use systems that support hard and soft partitions in many different ways. To most effectively use these systems, customers can decide which configuration options best meet their computing and application needs.

This chapter describes how to use hard and soft partitions and OpenVMS support for resource affinity domains (RADs) to ensure that applications run as efficiently as possible on the new AlphaServer systems.

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Using Hard and Soft Partitions on OpenVMS Systems
OpenVMS Partitioning Guidelines
Partitioning for the AlphaServer ES47/ES80/GS1280
Partitioning for the AlphaServer GS80/160/320
OpenVMS Galaxy Support
OpenVMS Application Support for Resource Affinity Domains (RADs)
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