Utility Capacity on Demand enablement code

Learn more about enabling your system so that it can use Utility Capacity on Demand (CoD). An HMC is required to use Utility CoD.

You must enable your system to use Utility Capacity on Demand. The Utility CoD website can provide a Utility CoD Enablement Code. To start using the inactive capacity on your system as utility capacity, you must enter the enablement code. The Utility CoD enablement code is valid for 365 server powered-on days.

The HMC displays messages on the HMC desktop. Console messages are displayed during the last 30 days of the enablement period. This allows you time to return to the CoD website, accept the terms and conditions for another year and receive a new enablement code.

After you have enabled your machine to use Utility Capacity on Demand, you can move the inactive processor cores into the shared processor pool. Then you can use them as utility processor cores for uncapped partitions.