APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ASSURING RECOVERY OF TEMPORARY RESOURCES IN A LOGICALLY PARTITIONED COMPUTER SYSTEM

摘要

A capacity manager provides temporary resources on demand in a manner that assures the temporary resources may be recovered when the specified resource-time expires. Access to minimum resource specifications corresponding to the logical partitions is controlled to prevent the sum of all minimum resource specifications from exceeding the base resources on the system. By assuring the sum of minimum resource specifications for all logical partitions is satisfied by the base resources on the system, the temporary resources may always be recovered when required.