Active processors can be redistributed across any or all partitions
of a hardware-partitionable system if those partitions contain inactive processors.
For example, consider a system with two partitions:
Partition
1 has 5 active processors and 3 inactive processors
Partition 2 has 8 active
processors and 0 inactive processors
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 complex is the same
at the end of this operation.
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This leaves the following:
Partition
1 now has 6 active processors and 2 inactive processors
Partition 2 now has 7 active
processors and 1 inactive processor
Does the redistribution of active processors affect
complex-wide compliance?
No, because you did not change the overall number of active
processors in the complex, assuming it was in compliance prior to
the redistribution, it remains in compliance.
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