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

Combining Partitioning Technologies for Greater Flexibility
By themselves, the various server partitioning technologies give you a very flexible compute
environment, but you can combine them for even greater flexibility and control.
The following illustration shows how nPartitions, vPars, and Integrity Virtual Machines can be
combined on a single server to support a large amount of work.
Figure 2-2 The Virtualization Technology Stack
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