Scheduling the movement of resources to and from logical partitions

You can use the Hardware Management Console (HMC) to schedule the movement of dedicated memory, logical memory, dedicated processors, shared processors, and I/O devices between running logical partitions on a managed system. This allows you to move resources between running logical partitions without user intervention.

1. In the navigation pane, open Systems Management > Servers, and click the system on which the logical partition is located.
2. In the work pane, select the logical partition for which you want to schedule the movement of resources, click the Tasks button, and click Operations > Schedule Operations. (If you want to schedule the movement of resources from one logical partition to another, select the logical partition from which you are moving resources.)
3. Click Options and click New.
4. Select Dynamic Reconfiguration, and click OK.
5. Select the date and time on which you want the movement to occur.
6. Select the Options tab and select the resource type (I/O, memory, or processor), the type of movement (Add, Remove, or Move to), the destination logical partition (if you are moving resources to another logical partition), and the quantity (in processors or in megabytes) or the I/O slot that you want to move.
   Note: You can add or remove logical memory to or from a logical partition. You cannot move logical memory from one logical partition to another logical partition.
7. If you want the operation to be repeated, select the Repeat tab and specify how you want the operation to be repeated.
8. Click Save.
9. When the message dialog displays, click OK to continue.