
86 Power Systems Enterprise Servers with PowerVM Virtualization and RAS
Figure 3-8 Power Flex details
3.5.2 Power Flex usage options
PowerFlex options are designed to allow your multi-system virtualization infrastructure to
provide a highly available and flexible IBM Power Systems IT environment.
Maintaining application availability
Flex Capacity Upgrade on Demand, working in conjunction with PowerVM Live Partition
Mobility, can help clients maintain application availability more affordably during planned
maintenance activities on a Power Flex system. Up to four times per year, a client can request
to temporarily activate inactive resources on ...