Specify the amount of memory that you want the logical partition to have when you activate the logical partition with this profile.
When you activate a logical partition that uses dedicated memory, if the managed system has at least this much uncommitted memory, the managed system commits this amount of memory to the logical partition. If the managed system does not have the desired memory amount available, but has at least the minimum memory amount available, the managed system activates the logical partition with the memory that is available.
When you activate a logical partition that uses shared memory, the managed system does not commit a memory amount to the logical partition. The memory for the logical partition is set to the desired memory.
Note: If you activate a shared memory partition and the shared memory pool does not contain enough physical memory required for activation, you can release memory that is currently assigned to other shared memory partitions that are shut down. The hypervisor can then assign the released memory to the shared memory partition that you want to activate.
You can express the assigned memory amount in gigabytes and megabytes. If you enter a number of gigabytes, the wizard multiplies that number by 1024 and adds the result to the megabytes to obtain the total number of megabytes to use.