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Affinity Group

Troubleshooting


Problem

This document will describe what an affinity group is and how to use

Resolving The Problem

Grouping multiple partitions allocation of processors and memory in the same hardware drawer
using affinity groups and one of the partitions was not placed in the drawer.

Defect 815943 fixes a placement failure when using an affinity group and saves the preferred drawer/chip. This fix is in Ax730_078 and beyond.

Affinity Group (HMC CLI profile attribute affinity_group)

Additional information is here:

Affinity Groups: Section 1.4.5
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/form/anonymous/api/wiki/61ad9cf2-c6a3-4d2c-b779-61ff0266d32a/page/64c8d6ed-6421-47b5-a1a7-d798e53e7d9a/attachment/f9ddb657-2662-41d4-8fd8-77064cc92e48/media/p7_virtualization_bestpractice.doc

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Historical Number

646516564

Document Information

Modified date:
08 October 2024

UID

nas8N1010775