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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsShamsundar Ashok, Robert Kimberlin Foster, Walter Manfred Lipp, Minh Nguyen
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A method, system and apparatus for dynamically reconfiguring partitions of a partitioned computer system are provided. Here, dynamically reconfiguring a partition is defined as being able to reconfigure the partition while the partition is operational. Using a graphical user interface (GUI), a user may indicate a plurality of resources that are to be involved in a partition reconfiguration. However, the partition is actually reconfigured one resource at a time. If one of the resources is memory, then memory is allocated to the partition or de-allocated from the partition one logical memory block (LMB) at a time. In reconfiguring partitions, resources may be removed, added or moved from one partition to another. Moving resources from one partition to another entails removing the resources from one partition and adding it to the other partition. After a partition re-configuration, a resource allocation table is updated. All this is done transparently to the user.
A method of dynamically reconfiguring partitions of a partitioned computer system, each partition of the partitioned computer system having a plurality of resources, the method comprising the steps of:
A computer program product on a computer readable medium for dynamically reconfiguring partitions of a partitioned computer system, each partition of the partitioned computer system having a plurality of resources, the computer program product comprising:
An apparatus for dynamically reconfiguring partitions of a partitioned computer system, each partition of the partitioned computer system having a plurality of resources, the apparatus comprising:
A partitioned computer system being able to dynamically reconfigure its own partitions, each partition having a plurality of resources, the partitioned computer system comprising:
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