The IBM PowerVM Standard Edition supports the following features:

• • micro partitioning
  • virtual I/O server (VIOS)
  • Shared Processor Pools
  • N-Port ID Virtualization (NPIV)
  • Shared Storage Pools
  • Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)
  • virtual Network Interface Controller adapter (vNIC)
  • thin provisioning
  • suspend and resume on POWER8 (or higher) systems
  • PowerVM NovaLink