Perform capacity planning and complete the planning worksheets needed to successfully create partitions on your server. Examples of capacity planning worksheets and planning hardware worksheets guide you through the process.
After understanding the hardware and software requirements for logical partitions, it is time to develop a detailed outline of your company's immediate and future workload demands for each partition. You need to consider how these demands will change your system resources. You should focus on the workload demand in each partition and then determine the hardware resources required to achieve the desired server performance.
You can start the planning process for each partition on your server by completing the following topics.
Refer to the Logical Partition 
web site for additional information on planning for
logical partitions.