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AIX Workload partitions (WPARs) are a software implementation of [[operating system-level virtualization]] technology introduced in the [[IBM|IBM's]] [[IBM AIX (operating system)|AIX 6.1 operating system]] that provides application environment isolation and resource control.

WPARs are software partitions that are created from, and share the resources of a single instance of the AIX OS. WPARs can be created on any [[IBM Power Systems]] or [[system p]] hardware that supports AIX 6.1 or higher versions. There are two kinds of WPARs, System WPARs and Application WPARs.