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Workspace PowerVM
Created by Guest
Created on May 31, 2017

RELATED IDEAS

CoD Automation to convert utility CPU to mobile CPU

The conversion from Utility CoD CPUs to mobile CPUs should be handled automatically in one step.

This should be available as a panel in HMC and
also integrated in LPM, so that an LPM operation determines the needed Mobile CPU and automatically increases the mobile CPU on the target system.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 15, 2020

    The utility COD function has been replaced on POWER9 with Enterprise Pools 2.0 (EP 2.0). With EP 2.0 the customer no longer needs to manage elastic (formerly called on/off COD), Utility or EP 1.0 movement/activation/deactivation of processor or memory resources. All the installed resources are available as metered resource. EP 2.0 bills based on actual consumption vs manual actions.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 8, 2018

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Power Systems
    Product - PowerVM
    Component - PowerVM
    Operating system - Other
    Source - None

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Power Systems
    Product - Power Hardware Management Console
    Component - Product functionality
    Operating system - Other
    Source - None

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