Determining the usage limit for products priced by processor
For Power Systems that meet certain requirements, the operating system automatically adjusts the number of available processors to match the installed usage limit for IBM® i feature 5051.
Processing capacity adjustment
- The system is a POWER6® or higher system.
- The system is configured with a single partition.
- The partition uses dedicated processors.
- The system is not attached to a hardware management console (HMC).
Default usage limit
The default usage limit for IBM i processor entitlement feature 5051 is one processor. The default usage limit might be in effect if you have never entered a valid license key, or if you have a temporary license key that has expired.
If your partition is running under the default usage limit, the processing capacity adjustment is not performed. When you are using a temporary license key, your partition's user count is adjusted to match the usage limit of the temporary license key. When a temporary key expires, the usage limit reverts to the default usage limit. If the configured IBM i processing capacity exceeds the default usage limit, a compliance message is sent to the QSYSOPR message queue every hour.