Determining the available physical memory on the destination server

You can determine whether the destination server has enough physical memory available to support the mobile partition. You can then make more physical memory available, if necessary, by using the Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM).

1. Identify the amount of physical memory that the mobile partition requires:
   1. From the Partition Management menu, click View/Modify Partitions. The View/Modify Partition panel is displayed.
   2. Select the mobile partition.
   3. From the Tasks menu, click Properties. The Partition Properties window is displayed.
   4. Click the Memory tab.
   5. Record the minimum, assigned, and maximum memory settings.
   6. Click OK
2. Identify the amount of physical memory that is available on the destination server:
   1. From the Partition Management menu, click View/Modify System Properties. The View/Modify System Properties window is displayed.
   2. Click the Memory tab.
   3. From the General section, record the Current memory available and the Reserved firmware memory.
3. Compare the values from steps 1 and 2.

   Keep in mind that when you move the mobile partition to the destination server, the destination server requires more reserved firmware memory to manage the mobile partition.

   If the destination server does not have enough physical memory available to support the mobile partition, you can add more available physical memory to the destination server by performing one or more of the following tasks:
   • Dynamically remove physical memory from logical partitions that use dedicated memory. For instructions, see Dynamically managing memory.
   • If the destination server is configured with a shared memory pool, dynamically remove physical memory from the shared memory pool. For instructions, see Changing the shared memory pool size by using the Integrated Virtualization Manager.