Automating capacity upgrade on demand

摘要

A mechanism is provided for automating capacity upgrade on demand. Responsive to a usage of an originally allocated resource exceeding an upper predetermined threshold, access to an additional resource is temporarily allocated. A trial time counter is initiated to track a time of access to the additional resource. A user of the logical partition is alerted that the additional resource is being accessed. Responsive to the user failing to license the additional resource, a determination is made as to whether a value of the trial time counter has exceeded a predetermined trial time period value. Responsive to the value of the trial time counter exceeding the predetermined trial time period value, access to the additional resource is deactivated.

主权项

1. A method, in a data processing system, for automating capacity upgrade on demand, the method comprising:
determining whether usage of an originally allocated resource allocated to a logical partition has exceeded an upper predetermined threshold; responsive to the usage of the originally allocated resource exceeding the upper predetermined threshold, allocating to the logical partition access to a first additional resource not already licensed to the logical partition for a first trial period; alerting a user of the logical partition that the first additional resource is being accessed in conjunction with the logical partition being allocated the access to the first additional resource; and in response to the access to the first additional resource being allocated to the logical partition for the first trial period:
initiating a first counter to track a time of access to the first additional resource by the logical partition; andresponsive to the user failing to license the first additional resource for use beyond the first trial period:
determining whether a first value of the first counter is greater than a predetermined trial time period value; andresponsive to the first value of the first counter being greater than the predetermined trial time period value, deactivating access to the first additional resource.