I need to know that if I have a blade server with 4 quad core processors, then is it possible to use each processor individually in a way that to install 4 OS on the same server (without using visualizing technologies, VM, HyperV, OVM etc), assign one processor to each OS and boot all 4 OS at the same time. Thanks.
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This is probably silly... but what OS are you planning to use? That's a critical part of this question.– ewwhiteSep 6, 2015 at 7:40
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@ewwhite Linux................– ZaffarSep 6, 2015 at 7:51
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Can you provide more details?– ewwhiteSep 6, 2015 at 7:51
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6I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because user clearly hasn't done their homework and lacks understanding of basic IT concepts such as ring zero.– Chopper3Sep 6, 2015 at 8:18
3 Answers
I'm not sure what you're really trying to do, but a generic answer is that a containerization technology will be the best way to provide the resource isolation you're looking for.
Docker may be another possible approach, depending on your final goal.
No it isn't possible from what I understand as the bios on each blade can only boot a single OS at a time.
A blade is just a minified rack server.
You could probably use containers or paravirtualisation within a single OS to achieve what you want.
No, as far as I know LPAR technology has not yet made it to X86 servers.
Depending on what you actually want to achieve you'll need a container or HyperVisor technology to provide the hardware isolation and the capabilities to run multiple OS's concurrently.