Setting up your environment for Capacity on Demand

Before you order any activation features, prepare your environment for integrating the additional capacity to ensure that your server is able to fully use the activated processor cores or memory.

To set up your environment for Capacity on Demand (CoD), you should:

• Prepare any logical partitions (LPARs)
• Perform any I/O conditioning
• Perform any disk upgrades

Newly activated processor cores are immediately available for use by uncapped logical partitions. You can choose to assign these processor cores to one or more logical partitions, except for processor cores that are activated by using Utility CoD. The processor cores that are activated by using Utility CoD are assigned to a default shared processor pool and are then used from the pool. You must assign these processor cores to one or more logical partitions to begin using them. You must also assign newly activated memory to one or more logical partitions to begin using the memory.