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1. Change the value to reflect the amount of wanted memory in gigabytes.
Decimal fractions can be specified to assign memory in megabyte
increments. This memory is the amount of memory the hypervisor attempts to
assign when the VIOS is activated. We assign the VIOS 2 GB of memory.
2. Click Next to proceed to the processor settings. Figure 7-9 opens.
We choose to make vios1 part of the shared processor pool. We want 1.0
processing units (one processor available for threads every timer tick), so we
must specify 10 in the Assigned processors field. This setting gives us 1.0
processing units and 10 virtual processors.
Figure 7-9 Setting the processor characteristics for the VIOS virtual server
Minimum and maximum values: You cannot specify minimum or
maximum settings. The value specified here is the wanted value. Minimum
and maximum values can be edited after the virtual servers are created, as
described in 7.3, “Modifying the VIOS definition” on page 304.
Specifying processor units: You cannot specify processing units, either
uncapped or capped, or weight. These values can be edited after the
virtual servers are created, as described in 7.3, “Modifying the VIOS
definition” on page 304.