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Activation Process for CUoD Features

Note: These activation procedures are provided as awareness for service and support personnel. The

customer is responsible for activating any installed CUoD features.

The 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 CUoD features are ordered for your server, they

are included in the server when it is delivered. To activate additional capacity when it is needed, use the

following steps:

1. Determine the additional capacity that you want to activate.

2. Contact your sales representative or business partner to place an order for specific processor CUoD

activation features.

3. The sales representative places an order to the system coordinator or feature coordinator for the

features you request. The order specifies the upgrade features to add.

4. To process the order, you must send the system Vital Product Data (VPD) to IBM in either of the

following ways:

v Electronic process (Electronic Service Agent)

v Web-based VPD entry. For details on how to submit the VPD either through the Electronic Service

Agent or using the Web, view the Planning Guide for Capacity Upgrade on Demand located at

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

5. After the activation code is received (from either the Web or the mailed copy), use the HMC to enter

the activation code. Detailed procedures are available in the Planning Guide for Capacity Upgrade on

After you have finished the activation 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

Before adding processors to a partition that is running Linux, you must stop the Linux partitions and then

restart them after you have assigned the processors.

Begin using the new capacity. If you encountered any problems using the preceding process, see

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

For complete procedures to power on and power off the system in various system configurations running

various operating systems, see "Powering the System On" on page 780.

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