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Oracle supports both soft and hard partitioning. Partitioning allows the user to use a subset of resources for a specific purpose, licensing only the used resources such as CPU. The partitioned resource might be a physical server or even the CPU on that server. Partitioning can be advantageous when the user wants to run multiple operating systems on the same server, or to manage how CPU resources are doled out. A soft partitioning example is Oracle VM where the resources are virtualized. Hard partitioning examples include Solaris Zones and IBM’s LPAR, but also CPU pinning on an Oracle Linux KVM environment. It is this latter use case that is covered next.