From: "Gil Peleg" > At first I used soft-cap. Then I noticed we encounter situations where one > LPAR is being soft-capped, while all the others are not even close to their > defined capacity. From my point of view, this is a poor allocation of > resources (which we are paying for). Obviously, If the LPAR was not > soft-capped (and not hard-capped) it could have used the free MSUs.
Seems you are trying to use for the wrong reason. Why don't weightings fulfil your requirements - especially if you are prepared to use the whole box ???. Soft capping is a *financial* contortion, not a technical aid to solving allocation issues. > I would like to see some solution to allow soft-capping the entire box at a > certain amount of MSUs, and then define regular weights to the LPARs. Check the archives - Phil waxed lyrical about possible side-effects of the charging model when it was announced. Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
