Stopping Trial Capacity on Demand
Trial Capacity on Demand (CoD) ends when the trial period is over and the resources have been reclaimed by the server. You must return the resources before the trial period has ended.
For more information about returning Capacity on Demand (CoD) resources, see Returning Capacity on Demand resources. If your server is powered off or loses power before the resources are removed from the logical partitions, you might need to perform recovery actions to successfully power on your server.
Trial Capacity on Demand can also end when you enter a Capacity Upgrade on Demand activation code to permanently activate the processor cores or memory. For more information about permanently activating resources, see Activating Capacity Upgrade on Demand. For more information about Capacity Upgrade on Demand, see Capacity Upgrade on Demand.
Stopping a current trial
You can use the HMC to stop a current Capacity on Demand trial for processor cores or memory units before the trial automatically expires. If you choose to stop the trial before it expires, you cannot restart it and you forfeit any remaining days.
Additional requests for Trial Capacity on Demand might be available from your Capacity on Demand administrator.
To stop a current Trial Capacity on Demand, follow these steps:
Trial Capacity on Demand is now stopped and cannot be restarted.
Unreturned Capacity on Demand resources
In the event the server is powered off or loses power, there may be unreturned Trial CoD, Elastic CoD, or Mobile CoD resources. Unreturned Trial CoD resources result when the trial period ends before the Trial CoD resources have been removed from your logical partition. Unreturned Elastic CoD resources result when the Elastic CoD request expires before the Elastic CoD resources have been removed from your logical partition. Unreturned Mobile CoD resources result when you remove Mobile CoD resources from your server before you have removed them from your logical partition.
When a server is powered off or loses power, all unreturned Trial CoD, Elastic CoD, or Mobile CoD resources are reclaimed by the server. As a result, when the server is powered back on, all logical partitions that were running prior to the power off or loss of power might not be able to be restarted since only licensed resources are available for use. Furthermore, when a logical partition is powered on, if there are not enough licensed resources to satisfy the logical partition's memory or processor requirements, the power on of that logical partition will fail. The failure might result in an HMC message of HSCL03F4 (not enough processing resources to meet the allocation setting), or a system reference code of B2xx1150 or B2xx1230.
