Suspend My i

An enhancement made in 7.1 was the support of Suspend/Resume, a feature of PowerVM that was already supported on AIX and Linux.

From the RFA:
PowerVM includes support for an IBM i partition to be suspended, and later resumed. Using Suspend/Resume, clients can perform long-term suspension of partitions, which frees server resources used by that partition, and later resume operation of that partition and its applications on the same server.

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