Activating Capacity Upgrade on Demand

When you purchase one or more activation features, you will receive corresponding activation codes to permanently activate your inactive processor cores or memory units.

To permanently activate your inactive resources by retrieving and entering your activation code:

  1. Retrieve the activation code by going to Capacity on Demand: Activation code.
  2. Enter the system type and serial number of your server.
  3. Record the activation code that is displayed on the website.
  4. To enter your activation code on your server by using the Hardware Management Console (HMC), choose one of the following navigation options depending on the interface type of the HMC:
    • If you are using an HMC Classic or HMC Enhanced interface, use the HMC Capacity On Demand > Enter CoD Code task.
    • If you are using an HMC Enhanced+ interface, use the Capacity on Demand > CoD functions > Enter CoD Code task.

Any newly activated processor cores are now available for use by uncapped logical partitions. If there are no uncapped logical partitions, you must assign the processor cores to one or more logical partitions in order to begin using the processor cores. Any newly activated memory must be assigned to one or more logical partitions to begin using the newly activated memory.

You can dynamically assign the newly activated processor cores or memory to the default partition. Alternatively, if your server is in the manufacturing default configuration, the server can start to use the newly activated processor cores or memory immediately after restarting your server operating system

You can now begin using the new resources.

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Last updated: Wed, September 27, 2017