Re: Msg: IBM i usage limit exceeded - operator action required (CPF9E7F)

In this case you have 2 uncapped partitions. Uncapped means, use everything
available (up to the current # of vCPU). Since the min vCPU is 1, you have
2 LPARs that can consume up to 0.9 CPUs = 1.8.
If you don't have an HMC, you should do as IBM said and limit the available
CPUs from the ASMI. In theory if you disabled the uncapped attribute you
would be in compliance (0.5+0.5 = 1)



On Wed, 27 Dec 2023 at 13:41, <smith5646midrange@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have been fighting with this same error for quite a while and maybe one
of you can shed some light on it. I am running V7R3 (my machine is capped
at that release).

I have 2 partitions MIDOHIO and MIDOHIO2. MIDOHIO2 is a virtual
partition. I do not have an HMC. Since I rarely use MIDOHIO2 (most of the
time it is not even powered up) I have just been ignoring the problem.

Below are the two partition configs. I configured both partitions to be
min / max of 1 processor. So why am I getting an error that I my usage
limit was exceeded? IBM's response when I opened a ticket was "Use the
Field Core Override (FCO) function in Advanced System Management (ASM) on
the service processor to turn off all but the one processor you have a
license for." Is this just a bug in virtual partitions that allows it to
use more than the max processors?

Partition identifier and name . . . . . . . : 1 MIDOHIO

Number of partition processors . . . . . . . : 1
Minimum / maximum number of processors . . . : 1 / 1
Use shared processor pool . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Shared processor pool units . . . . . . . : 0.50
Minimum / maximum processor pool units . . : 0.10 / 0.90
Uncapped processing . . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Uncapped processing weight . . . . . . . : Med
Size of partition memory (MB) . . . . . . . : 3744
Minimum / maximum size of memory (MB) . . . : 1024 / 8192
Enable workload management . . . . . . . . . : No



Partition identifier and name . . . . . . . : 2 MIDOHIO2

Number of partition processors . . . . . . . : 1
Minimum / maximum number of processors . . . : 1 / 1
Use shared processor pool . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Shared processor pool units . . . . . . . : 0.50
Minimum / maximum processor pool units . . : 0.10 / 0.90
Uncapped processing . . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Uncapped processing weight . . . . . . . : Med
Size of partition memory (MB) . . . . . . . : 2944
Minimum / maximum size of memory (MB) . . . : 1024 / 8096
Enable workload management . . . . . . . . . : No

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