Jerry, Based upon what you are trying to do, I suggest the following:
Make the total weights for LPARs 1, 2, 3, and 4 add up to 1000, assuming all four are normally active. Then you can easily do the math and for example, give LPAR 2 say 15% of the machine by setting its weight to 150 (15/1000). This is the only LPAR you would want to cap. Have LPARs 1, 3 and 4, have weights that together add up to the remaining 85% and don't cap them. If there are spare CPU cycles, then your uncapped LPARs will be able to use them too. LPAR 2 would be the only one limited. Don't forget to also set up the number of processors in each LPAR appropriately. For example, if you have 10 processors and you only give LPAR #2 one processor, then it can only ever use one processor, even if its weight says 15%. Or, if you want a production LPAR to have 3/8 of the system, then it needs at least 4 processors if you have a total of 10 so that it can fully use its 37.5% of the system. And if you give it say 5 processors, then it could even get up to 50% of the system if other LPARs weren't fully using their processing power. Tom ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
