System information

Chapter 6. Working with the HMC 181
Hardware
The Hardware tab shows which hardware resources are currently in use by the partition.
There are two sub-tabs on this dialog. One lists the I/O resources, and the other lists both
processors and memory.
I/O
The I/O sub-tab (Figure 6-4) shows which I/O resources are currently assigned to the
partition. The hierarchical view can be expanded to display which buses within a given unit
are available to a partition. An individual system bus can be further expanded to display which
individual IO slots are allocated to the partition.
Information about the type and model of a particular card residing in a given slot is only
displayed if the converged Hypervisor has informed the HMC. In order to obtain this
information, the converged Hypervisor depends on being directed by the operating system
that owns and uses that particular slot. The converged Hypervisor does not query the slot
itself for this information (Figure 6-5).
Figure 6-4 Hardware - I/O tab on the partition properties
Processors and Memory
The Processors and Memory sub-tab (Figure 6-5) displays the current processing
configuration for the partition. The minimum, maximum, and current values for processing
units and virtual processors is displayed. The processor Sharing mode identifies what kind of
processors are being used: dedicated, capped shared, and uncapped shared. For an
uncapped partition, the partition weight is also displayed.