Malcolm, I assume that while the IFLs are in Standby the Hypervisor is not including them in his calculations when scheduling the Processors correct so they are not considered in terms of overhead correct?
Thank You, Terry Martin Lockheed Martin CMS - CITIC 3300 Lord Baltimore Drive, Suite 200, 21244 Engineering Computing Mainframe Support Cell - 443 632-4191 -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Malcolm Beattie Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 9:37 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: RESERVED field on the HMC for IFLs on LPAR Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) writes: > I my configuring my z/VM LPARS on our new z196. We have 25 IFLs but I am not > assigning all of them to all LPARS. So if I set the Initial # of processors > to 10 for an LPAR and set the rest 15 in reserved can I VARY the IFLs in the > reserved state online via the VARY command without a disruption? Yes. (Don't anybody say my answers are always too verbose :-) --Malcolm -- Malcolm Beattie Mainframe Systems and Software Business, Europe IBM UK
