Load-balancing Active Processors

	NOTE: This section also applies to virtual partitions (vPars).

iCOD offers dynamic resizing of partitions on hardware-partitionable systems (for example, Superdome). Specifically, active processors can be redistributed across any or all partitions of a hardware-partitionable system if those partitions contain iCOD processors.

For example, consider a Superdome system with two partitions:

You need to add processing power to Partition 1 because of application demand and you notice that the active processors in Partition 2 are under utilized.

Deactivating an active processor in Partition 2 decreases the number of active processors in that partition, and activating one of the processors in Partition 1 increases the number of active processors in that partition. The total number of active processors in the Superdome complex is the same at the end of this operation.

	IMPORTANT: To avoid any billing consequences, it is important to perform the deactivation operation first.

This leaves the following:

Does the redistribution of active processors cost you anything?

No, because you did not change the overall number of active processors in the Superdome complex, there is no charge.