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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