Capacity on Demand offerings
Learn the differences between the Capacity on Demand (CoD) offerings and learn basic information about each offering.
The following table provides a brief description of each CoD offering. Consult your IBM® Business Partner or IBM sales representative to select the CoD offering most appropriate for your environment.
| Offering | Description |
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| You can permanently activate inactive processor cores and memory units by purchasing an activation feature and entering the provided activation code. You can do this without restarting your server or interrupting your business. | |
| You can evaluate the use of inactive processor cores, memory, or both, at no charge using Trial CoD. After it is started, the trial period is available for 30 power-on days. | |
You can activate processor cores or memory units for a number of days by using the HMC to activate resources on a temporary basis. Formerly referred to as On/Off CoD. |
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Utility CoD is used when you have unpredictable, short workload spikes. Utility CoD automatically provides additional processor capacity on a temporary basis within the shared processor pool. Use is measured in processor minute increments and is reported at the Utility CoD website. |
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| A Power Enterprise Pool is a group of systems that can share Mobile Capacity on Demand (CoD) processor resources and memory resources. | |
| PowerVM Editions (PowerVM Editions) deliver advanced virtualization
functions for AIX®, Linux and IBM i clients. PowerVM Editions (PowerVM Editions) include the following offerings:
PowerVM Editions (Express, Standard , and Enterprise) offer different capabilities. For more information about each editions' capabilities, see PowerVM Editions (PowerVM). |
