Activating Trial Capacity on Demand
You can activate your inactive processor cores or memory for a trial period by obtaining and entering a trial processor code or a trial memory code.
About this task
To activate Trial Capacity on Demand (CoD), complete the following steps:
Procedure
- Retrieve the activation code by going to the following web address: https://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/ess/index.wss#PcodNotification.
- To enter your activation code on your server by using the Hardware Management Console (HMC), use the Capacity on Demand > CoD functions > Enter CoD Code task.
Results
Any newly activated processor cores are now available for use by uncapped logical partitions. If there are no uncapped logical partitions, you must assign the processor cores to one or more logical partitions in order to begin using the processor cores. Any newly activated memory must be assigned to one or more logical partitions to begin using the newly activated memory.
You can dynamically assign the newly activated processor cores or memory to the default partition. Alternatively, if your server is in the manufacturing default configuration, the server can start to use the newly activated processor cores or memory immediately after restarting your server operating system
Before the trial period expires, you must either enter a Capacity Upgrade on Demand activation code to permanently activate the Trial CoD resources, or you must return the Trial CoD resources. For more information, see Activating Capacity Upgrade on Demand or Returning Capacity on Demand resources.