System WPARS are virtual system environments that closely resembles a [[LPAR]] or a complete separate system. WPARs have their own private file systems, users and groups, login, network space, and administrative ___domain. All WPARs share the same global AIX [[Kernel (computer science)|kernel]]. There are two types of System WPARs :
=== Shared System WPAR ===
The /usr and /opt [[Unix_directory_structure|filesystems]] of this kind of WPAR is shared from that of the Global AIX OS. The Shared System WPAR however has to still maintain a private copy of /, /home, /var and /tmp.
=== Private System WPAR ===
The /usr and /opt [[Unix_directory_structure|filesystems]] of this kind of WPAR is separate from that of the Global AIX OS. The advantage of this kind of WPAR is that it can have applications installed, which are different from that of the Global AIX OS.
