1. A computer server system, comprising: a plurality of modular server blades in a hard partition; a separate central service processor networked to the modular server blades; firmware resident on the separate central service processor to receive partitioning requests, to formulate partitioning instructions based on the requests and to transmit the instructions to the modular server blades; and copies of system firmware resident on the modular server blades that are merged to form a nucleus firmware instance to create at least one soft partition based on the partitioning instructions and to assign partitionable hardware resources of the modular server blades to the at least one soft partition.