Logical partition scenario: Scheduling movement of processing power

This scenario shows how you can dynamically reallocate resources based on workload peaks.

Situation

You are the system administrator for a company that has a partitioned 270 iSeries™. Your company has 4 partitions with each partition owning .50 processing units. At the end of the each month, partition 2 needs .40 additional processing units due to workload demands. The workload demands on partition 3 are minimal at the end of the month. Your 270 only supports 2 processors. What should you do?

Objectives

The objectives of this scenario are as follows:

Use dynamic movement of resources to move processing power to another partition.
Schedule the movement of processing power to happen monthly.

Solution
You must complete each of these tasks to move processing power and to schedule the move to occur monthly.

Parent topic: Logical and guest partition scenarios