Overview
Utility Capacity on Demand (Utility CoD) provides the automated control of the amount of capacity used for variable business demands. For addressing planned or unplanned business demands, utility service will be available within the system for processor capacity.
Utility CoD will allow clients to use additional capacity in a minute by minute basis and the service delivers a processor minute of capacity when and where you need it. Just like electricity is accounted for as it is used, processor minutes are accounted for at the time of actual use.
Utility CoD allows you to assign inactive processors that are installed on the system to the shared processor pool where they can be used to satisfy the variable workload demands of the business. The assigned processors will be treated as utility processors that are available for use by uncapped partitions. When an uncapped partition reaches 100% utilization and at least 10% of a utility processor is put into use during a one minute interval, a utility processor minute will be considered consumed.
Clients must report the use of utility processor minutes and pay for that use on a timely basis or the processor utility service will be disabled.
Activities
Utility CoD provides the following services after the client reviews and accepts Utility CoD terms and conditions.