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Bryan,

Thanks for the reply. Here's what the redbook says:

"Although an uncapped logical partition can use more processor power than
its assigned
processing capacity, the uncapped logical partition can never use more
processing units than
its assigned number of virtual processors."

If I understand that correctly, when the virtual processors and the
physical processors are the same it will never use available processors
from the shared processor pool. Wouldn't the virtual processors need to
be set to a number higher than the physical processors to make use of
unused processor capacity?

Also, how does increasing the number of virtual processors affect
licensing?

Thanks.

Mark Garton
Information Systems
O'Reilly Auto Parts



date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:53:48 -0400
from: Bryan Dietz <bdietz400@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Dynamic LPAR - Virtual Processors

Virtual processors......they are fun to play with, aren't they.

As everyone's environment is different, I would have a look at this
redbook:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg248000.html?Open

Page 15 (1.3.7) starts talking about virtual processors.

a rule-of-thumb is to have the same number of virtual processors as
there are physical processors assigned to the partition, round up if you
have partial processors assigned.

Bryan





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