Some entitlements of z Systems Development and Test Environment enable emulation of the Coupling Facility under z/VM® while others do not. Entitlements that enable the coupling facility are referred to in z Systems Development and Test Environment documentation as Sysplex activations.
Although a coupling facility is not related to an individual processor in real z Systems hardware, every CP in a z Systems Development and Test Environment instance requires a corresponding Sysplex CP activation to enable the coupling facility for the instance.
Similarly, instances that do not enable the coupling facility require non-Sysplex CP activations for every CP in the instance. The update file that you receive to activate your USB hardware device is based on the type of license you purchased.
A single instance of z Systems Development and Test Environment with Parallel Sysplex® enabled runs z/VM, the coupling facility, and one or more instances of z/OS®. The available CPs defined to the instance are shared among all systems that are running, and are defined in the processor setting of the devmap. Configure at least one CP for each z/OS guest. A single instance of z Systems Development and Test Environment with Parallel Sysplex can be configured to use a maximum of 8 CPs.