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Select compartment type

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In this step:

  1. Select the type of compartment your workloads should be based on. Follow the links below to sections in this help page for background information:
    » Discovered Layout
    » Selecting a compartment to manage (and creating an SRD)

  2. Select the [Next] button.

Discovered Layout

The Discovered Layout shows you the compartments found on the systems you specified in the previous step.

Use the +, ++, -, and -- buttons to expand or contract various items in the Discovered Layout:

Expand the layouts for all systems by selecting ++.

Expand the layout for a single system by selecting + next to that system's name.

Contract the layouts for all systems by selecting --.

Contract the layout for a single system by selecting - next to that system's name.

In the Discovered Layout, position your cursor over an item to see the following CPU data for that item:

min/size/max

These labels correspond to:

  • min - The minimum number of CPUs the compartment is configured to have. For psets, this value is 1; for partitions, you set this value using an npar or vpar command.

  • size - The number of CPUs the compartment has at the time of discovery.

  • max - The maximum number of CPUs the compartment is configured to have. For partitions, you set this value using an npar or vpar command.

Selecting a compartment to manage (and creating an SRD)

gWLM displays a list of the compartment types that are available to be managed for the systems you have specified.

When you select the type of compartment to manage, gWLM creates SRDs that contain your chosen type of compartment. Your workloads then run in these compartments.

The following table shows how the choice of compartment type results in different SRDs.

gWLM displays only the compartment types available for the system. For information on making other compartment types available, see the gWLM Release and Installation Notes.

Choosing to manage by...Results in an SRD...
hardware partitions (nPartitions) Based on the system itself*
virtual partitions Based on an nPartition or on the system itself
psets Based on a virtual partition, on an nPartition, or on the system itself
fss groups Based on a pset**, on a virtual partition, on an nPartition, or on the system itself

* To use npars as compartments, your npars must meet several npar requirements.

** When managing fss groups on a system having both psets and fss groups, processor set 0 contains all the fss groups. Consequently, allocations to the fss groups are based on the number of CPUs in processor set 0.

When gWLM is managing psets, all processes not explicitly placed in gWLM workloads run in the default pset.

When gWLM is managing fss groups, all nonsystem processes not explicitly placed in gWLM workloads run in the default fss group. (gWLM manages system processes in a dedicated fss group.)

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