the processor on demand process begins when you determine a potential need for more processing capability in the future and want to have the hardware installed on the server now. if processor on demand features are ordered for your server, they are included in the server when it is delivered. when additional processors become a necessity, use the following steps to activate them:

    1. determine the number of standby processors you want to activate.

    2. contact your sales representative or business partner to place an order for particular processor on demand activation features.

    3. the sales representative places an order to the system coordinator or feature coordinator for the specific number of processor on demand activation features. the order specifies the number of additional processors you have requested to add.

    4. to process the order, you must send the system vital product data (vpd) to ibm in either of the following ways:

    1 electronic process (electronic service agent)

    2 web-based vpd entry:

    for details on how to submit the vpd either through the electronic service agent using the web system go to the following web site and locate the document planning guide for capacity upgrade on demand. the planning guide provides detailed procedures.

    http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/cuod/index.html

    5. after the activation code is received (either from the web or the mailed copy), enter the activation code using the hmc. detailed procedures are available in the document planning guide for capacity upgrade on demand.

    6. once you have finished the acivation process, you can assign the activated processors to a partition. if you are using dynamic partitioning (dlpar), you need not reboot the system to use the processors. if you are not using dlpar, you must reboot the managed system before the newly activated processors can be used.

    before adding processors to a partition that is running linux, you must stop linux partitions and then restart them after you have assigned the processors.

    begin using the new processor capacity. if you encountered any problems using the preceding process, see the following web site:

    http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/cuod/index.html