PowerVM Live Partition Mobility (LPM) came to us in IBM i 7.1 TR4, which IBM announced in April and shipped in May. LPM basically makes IBM i instances portable, allowing you to move your running LPARs from one physical server to another and back again. LPM brings the PowerVM hypervisor up to par with the mobility capabilities of VMware‘s ESX Server, and will help keep the IBM i platform and IBM i applications viable into the future.