HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Overview HP-UX 11i v3 (B3921-90011, September 2010)

• One operating system, running on a single one processor/one core (1P/1C) server is a
standalone system (or a one-node network).
• Multiple operating systems running on one multiple core server utilizes partitioning
technology.
• One operating system spanning multiple
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servers represents clustering technology
The following sections discuss each of the virtualization categories and describe which HP-UX
technologies to use if you need to configure your system(s) to take advantage of each category.
2. Technically, each server is running its own operating system, but they are all functioning as if they were a single
instance, spanning multiple servers.
22 HP-UX Virtualization Technologies