12 Hardware Management Console (HMC) Case Configuration Study for LPAR Management
Figure 4 Initial configuration
Table5 shows our configuration in detail. Our test system has only one 4-pack
DASD available. Therefore we installed a VIO server to have sufficient disks
available for our partitions.
Table 5 CPU and memory allocation table
It is recommended to dedicate a processor when optimal performance is
required for the VIO server. However, in this section we use a shared processor
to configure our VIO to make the best use of the resources on our test system as
shown in Table6 on page 13.
Partition
name CPU
(Min/Desired/Max) Virtual processors
(Min/Desired/Max) Dedicated/
Shared Capped/
Uncapped
nicole_vio 0.5/0.8/2.0 1/1/2 Shared Capped
oli 1/1/4 N/A Dedicated N/A
julia 0.1/0.2/2.0 1/1/4 Shared Capped
P550 –2 CPU -8GB
nils (production)
2 CPUs (dedicated)
7 GB
P550 –4 CPU –8 GB
Oli(production)
1 CPU (dedicated)
5120 MB
julia (standby)
0.2 CPU (shared)
1024 MB
HMC 1 HMC 2
Cluster
Nicole_vio
0.8 CPU (shared)
1024 MB