Cell Board Instant Capacity

Cell Board Instant Capacity allows you to have additional (inactive) cell board capacity in your system for growing business needs. When the need arises, licensed cell boards, which contain memory and processors, are then available for instant activation and use.

The Instant Capacity software monitors and enforces the count of inactive cell boards throughout the complex. Inactive cell boards have the use-on-next-boot flag set to “n” (no).

After applying a cell board and memory codeword, you may activate any cell board with memory not exceeding the licensed amount, and configure it into an nPartition. This is controlled by setting the use-on-next-boot flag to “y” (yes) with the parmodify command and rebooting the nPartition.

	IMPORTANT: An active cell board must have a minimum of one active processor; therefore, a processor license must be available in the complex.

See Chapter 6 “Cell Board Instant Capacity” for more information.