You can use Intelligent Management in a micro-partitioned environment. You can use shared processor partitions with Intelligent Management.
A shared processor partition has a metric called Entitled Capacity Percentage. This metric represents the percentage the partition is using of its entitlement at a given point in time. The metric is visible in popular AIX system monitoring tools like the lparstat command, the nmon command, and the topas command.
An uncapped, shared processor partition can be assigned more processing capacity beyond its entitlement. The amount of processing capacity beyond its entitlement depends on the availability of the availability of processors in the shared pool and the maximum amount that the virtual processor configuration allows.
Intelligent Management can be used in environments with shared processor partitions or with dynamically shared processor pools on physical hardware.
Shared processor partition statistics are available. These statistics help you understand the utilization of a shared processor partition and the dynamic capacity of the shared processor pool. The statistics are helpful for Intelligent Management monitoring in a micro-partitioned environment.