Returning Capacity on Demand resources

To return Trial Capacity on Demand (CoD) processor cores or memory, you must remove the processor cores or memory from the logical partitions to which they are assigned, thus making them available to be reclaimed by the server.

You do not need to remove the processor cores or memory from the same logical partitions to which they were assigned when you started your On/Off CoD request or Trial CoD. You can remove the processor cores or memory from any of your logical partitions.

It is best to remove processor cores or memory from a logical partition when the logical partition is running.

Logical partitions that are not activated might still have processor cores and memory assigned to them. To remove processor cores or memory from a logical partition that is not activated, you have these options:

• Modify a partition profile for the logical partition to reduce the number of processor cores or memory, and then activate the logical partition by using the modified partition profile.
• Delete the logical partition.