Overview of policies

An iCap policy is a set of rules that you specify to manage group capacity limits (GCLs) and the defined capacities (DCs) of LPARs.

You can build basic policies by specifying mostly default values, or you can build detailed policies by specifying values that meet your system's needs. If you want to build a detailed policy, you should first collect information about the systems (CPCs) on which your managed LPARs are running.

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The following figure shows a sample iCap policy.

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 The main policy can contain:

  • LPARs
  • Capacity groups
  • Individually managed capacity group members
  • Subpolicies

iCap can manage LPARs and groups across multiple CPCs in a CMP. When you create a new policy, by default, iCap manages the CPC on which the master PAS is running. You can include additional CPCIDs in the policy, and iCap can manage any of the LPARs that are running on the CPC in the main policy or subpolicies. For more information, see Creating-a-basic-policy.

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