Aix - Logical Partitioning - Partition Profile

Aix - Logical Partitioning - Partition Profile

A partition profile is a record on the Hardware Management Console (HMC) that
specifies a possible configuration for a logical partition. When you activate a
logical partition using a partition profile, the managed system attempts to start
the logical partition using the configuration information in the partition profile.
A partition profile specifies the desired system resources for the logical partition
and the minimum and maximum amounts of system resources that the logical
partition can have. The system resources specified within a partition profile
includes processors, memory, and I/O resources.

Each logical partition on a managed system that is managed by an HMC has at
least one partition profile. If desired, you can create additional partition profiles
with different resource specifications for your logical partition. If you create
multiple partition profiles, you can designate any partition profile on the logical
partition to be the default partition profile. The HMC activates the default profile if
you do not select a specific partition profile to be activated. Only one partition
profile can be active at one time. To activate another partition profile for a logical
partition, you must shut down the logical partition before you activate the other
partition profile.

A partition profile is identified by partition ID and profile name. Partition IDs are
whole numbers used to identify each logical partition that you create on a
managed system, and profile names identify the partition profiles that you create
for each logical partition.