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Cell Board Instant Capacity

Activation of an Instant Capacity Cell Board

		Activation of an Instant Capacity Cell Board
		An Instant Capacity cell board is usually assigned to an nPartition;
		however, it does not participate in the boot of the nPartition. Activating
		an Instant Capacity cell board that is licensed is a two step process:
Step	1. Set the cell board’s use-on-next-bootflag to “y” (yes) using the
		parmodify command
Step	2. Perform a reboot of the nPartition (using the shutdown -rcommand)
Example 6-3		Activating a cell board in cabinet 0, slot 5, nPartition 3
		For example, changing the use-on-next-bootflag to “y” on the Instant
		Capacity cell board in cabinet 0, slot 5, in nPartition 3 can be
		accomplished via the following command:
		/usr/sbin/parmodify -p 3 -m 0/5::y:
		If there are available licensed processors in the complex, the number of
		intended active processors is increased as high as possible, limited
		by the number of processors in the newly activated cell board. The
		available processor licenses are automatically used in the cell activation.
		After you have set the cell board’s use-on-next-bootflag to “y”, and
		performed the reboot, you can use the icod_modify command to activate
		processors that are listed as inactive processors that can be
		activated (as reported by the icod_stat command).
		The number of active processors in the nPartition remains the same
		after the cell board is made active — unless prior to the cell board’s
		activation the number of intended active processors is greater than
		the number of active processors (as reported by the icod_stat
		command).
		Activating an Instant Capacity cell board causes at least one processor to
		become active on that cell board.
IMPORTANT		The above parmodify command fails if a licensed processor is not
		available for activation on the newly activated cell board.

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