Providing your chosen operating system is AIX®, you can use WebSphere® Message Broker Hypervisor Edition without either of the IBM® Hardware Appliances. In this stand-alone environment, you can deploy the virtual machine image on an IBM POWER® system.
WebSphere Message Broker Hypervisor Edition for IBM AIX is available as an AIX mksysb image. Use standard AIX system administration tools (such as NIM) to deploy the mksysb image.
Maintenance for virtual machines is applied in the same way as it is for a WebSphere Message Broker environment.