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