Stopping an Elastic Capacity on Demand request

You can stop a request for temporary capacity before it expires.

Elastic Capacity on Demand (CoD) remains enabled on your server, but an issued request for temporary capacity will be stopped. For example, consider this scenario: you have requested the temporary activation of one inactive processor for 14 days. After seven days of this request, you determine that you do not need the temporarily activated processor for the remaining seven days of the request. You can stop the request and avoid being billed for any unused processor or memory days of your request. Stopping a request does not preclude making any further requests at a later time.

To stop a request for temporary capacity at any time during the period of requested temporary capacity:

  1. Return the Elastic CoD resources. See Returning Elastic Capacity on Demand resources for information about how to return Elastic CoD resources.
  2. To stop an Elastic CoD request by using the Hardware Management Console (HMC), choose one of the following navigation options depending on the interface type of the HMC:
    • If you are using the HMC Classic or HMC Enhanced interface, use the HMC Capacity on Demand > Processor or Memory > On/Off CoD > Manage task.
    • If you are using the HMC Enhanced+ interface, use the Capacity on Demand > CoD functions > Manage task.
Parent topic: Using Elastic Capacity on Demand


Last updated: Wed, September 27, 2017