Use this page to specify the processing management information for this partition profile. This information indicates the range of processing power that you can dynamically allocate to the logical partition without having to reactivate the logical partition. This information also indicates the desired processing power that is associated with this partition profile (the amount of processing power that you want the logical partition to have when you activate the logical partition).
If the partition profile specifies that the logical partition uses shared processors, you can also use this page to specify how the logical partition that is associated with this partition profile uses the following shared processing properties:
The sharing mode determines whether the logical partition can use idle processing units that are not committed to the logical partition. (The managed system commits processing units to the logical partition when you activate the logical partition or move processing units dynamically to or from the logical partition.)
A virtual processor represents a single physical processor to the operating system of a shared processor partition. The operating system uses the number of virtual processors assigned to the logical partition to calculate the number of operations that the operating system can perform concurrently.
You can find more help on the elements of this page by using the following links:
Shared:
Minimum processing units required for each virtual processor
Dedicated: