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4.6 Capacity on Demand activation procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
4.7 Using Capacity on Demand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
4.7.1 Using Capacity Upgrade on Demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
4.7.2 Using On/Off Capacity On Demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
4.7.3 Using Reserve Capacity on Demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
4.7.4 Using Trial Capacity on Demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
4.8 HMC Capacity on Demand menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
4.8.1 HMC command line functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
4.9 Capacity on Demand configuration rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
4.9.1 Processor Capacity Upgrade on Demand configuration rules . . . . 103
4.9.2 Memory Capacity Upgrade on Demand configuration rules . . . . . . 104
4.9.3 Trial Capacity on Demand configuration rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
4.9.4 Dynamic processor sparing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
4.10 Software licensing considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
4.10.1 License entitlements for permanent processor activations . . . . . . 106
4.10.2 License entitlements for temporary processor activations . . . . . . 107
4.11 Capacity on Demand feature codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Chapter 5. Configuration tools and rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
5.1 Configuration tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
5.1.1 IBM Configurator for e-business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
5.1.2 LPAR Validation Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
5.2 Configuration rules for p5-590 and p5-595 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
5.2.1 Minimum configuration for the p5-590 and p5-595 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
5.2.2 LPAR considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
5.2.3 Processor configuration rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
5.2.4 Memory configuration rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
5.2.5 Advanced POWER Virtualization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
5.2.6 I/O sub-system configuration rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
5.2.7 Disks, boot devices, and media devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
5.2.8 PCI and PCI-X slots and adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
5.2.9 Keyboards and displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
5.2.10 Frame, power, and battery backup configuration rules . . . . . . . . . 130
5.2.11 HMC configuration rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
5.2.12 Cluster 1600 considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
5.3 Capacity planning considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
5.3.1 p5-590 and p5-595 general considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
5.3.2 Further capacity planning considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Chapter 6. Reliability, availability, and serviceability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
6.1 What’s new in RAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
6.2 RAS overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
6.3 Predictive functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
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