An Instant Capacity cell board is usually assigned to an nPartition; however,
it does not participate in the boot of the nPartition. Activating an
Instant Capacity cell board that is licensed is a two step process:
Set the cell board’s
use-on-next-boot flag to “y” (yes)
using the parmodify command
Perform a reboot of the nPartition
(using the shutdown -r command)
Example 6-3 Activating
a cell board in cabinet 0, slot 5, nPartition 3
For example, changing the use-on-next-boot flag
to “y” on the Instant Capacity cell board in cabinet
0, slot 5, in nPartition 3 can be accomplished via the following
command:
/usr/sbin/parmodify -p 3 -m 0/5::y:
If there are available licensed processors in the complex,
the number of intended active processors is increased as high as
possible, limited by the number of processors in the newly activated
cell board. The available processor licenses are automatically used
in the cell activation.
After you have set the cell board’s use-on-next-boot flag
to “y”, and performed the reboot, you can use the icod_modify command to activate processors that are listed as inactive
processors that can be activated (as reported by the icod_stat command).
The number of active processors in the nPartition remains
the same after the cell board is made active — unless prior
to the cell board’s activation the number of intended
active processors is greater than the number of active
processors (as reported by the icod_stat command).
Activating an Instant Capacity cell board causes at least
one processor to become active on that cell board.
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See the HP System Partitions Guide for
details about adding and configuring cells in nPartitions.
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