Create Workload Partition Group

The following panes and fields appear on this page. Click a link below to go directly to the help for any pane.

WPAR Group General Properties

Fields

WPAR Group name
Specify the name for the WPAR group.
WPAR Group description
Specify an optional description for this WPAR group.
Specify policy based relocation settings
Select this option to enable automatic relocation for all WPARs in the WPAR Group and allow all WPARs in the WPAR Group to be automatically migrated based upon the policy values specified.

Add WPARs to WPAR Group

Actions

Use this page to display the WPARs currently assigned to this WPAR group. To add WPARs to the group, click Add. This displays a new page listing all active, checkpointable WPARs. A WPAR can be a member of only one group. Adding it to the current group removes it from the default group, or any other group to which it may have been assigned.
Add
Click this button to open a new dialog to select from available WPARs to add to the WPAR group you are creating.

Specify WPAR Group Policy Settings

Fields

Use this page to configure the policy settings for this WPAR group are defined. On this pane, you can view or change several global policy settings. Periodically, the average performance state of all WPAR instances deployed in the WPAR group is calculated. If the average performance state exceeds the limits specified by the Maximum and Minimum policy threshold values, a relocation event is generated, based on other properties defined in the WPAR Group definition.
Minimum Threshold
Specify the minimum setting for the threshold. The value can range between 0 and 100, but must be less than the Maximum Threshold.
Maximum Threshold
Specify the maximum setting for the threshold. The value can range between 0 and 100, but must be more than the Minimum Threshold.
Average Period (minutes)
Specify the time window for which performance metrics are averaged for performance state analysis.

Specify WPAR Group Policy Metrics

Actions

Use this page to modify the relocation policy for this WPAR group. On this page, you can specify set of performance metrics which are currently being monitored for this WPAR group, and the limits, weights and other characteristics for each metric.

Add
Click this button to display a new page that you can use to add metrics for monitoring the selected WPAR group. Specify the new metric settings and click OK.
Remove
Click this button to stop monitoring one or more metric from the WPAR group.

Managed System Profiles Associated with WPAR Group

Actions

This page displays the list of system profiles that will be used for relocation of WPARs in this WPAR group. A system profile is a description of a system hardware configuration that may represent one or more physical systems in your environment. If two systems have identical hardware configurations, they share the same system profile. When you select one or more system profiles to associate with this WPAR group, you are specifying that only systems with the selected system profiles will be considered as possible targets for WPAR relocation. This page also allows you to assign ranks or priorities to system profiles. A managed system with a system profile that is ranked High will receive relocation preference over a managed system having a profile with a Medium or Low ranking.

Add
Click this button to display a new page that you can use to associate new system profiles with the WPAR group. Select the system profiles you want to add to the WPAR group, and click OK.
Remove
Select one or more system profiles, than select this button to remove the selected system profiles from the WPAR group.

Specify Optional Compatibility Tests

Actions

This page displays the optional compatibility tests that are currently associated with this WPAR group. In addition to the required tests for WPAR compatibility, you can specify additional tests if needed to ensure safe relocation of your applications. If you know, for example, that the amount of memory assigned to the WPAR can not be reduced, then you can select Arrival system must have at least as much physical memory as departure system as an optional compatibility test. Once you have selected one or more optional tests, they are evaluated in the same way as the required tests when determining whether a potential arrival system is compatible for WPAR relocation.

Add
Click this button to display a new page that you can use to associate new optional compatibility test with the WPAR group. Select the optional compatibility tests you want to add to the WPAR group, and click OK.
Remove
Select one or more optional tests, than select this button to remove the selected optional tests from the WPAR group.