Patent ID: 6968441

Claim:
A method for managing a first resource and a second resource of a computer system, wherein the computer system includes one or more partitions, wherein the computer system requires that the first and the second resources be assigned to each of the one or more partitions in amounts that satisfy a relationship wherein the amount of the first resource assigned to each respective partition is related to the amount of the second resource assigned to the respective partition, wherein the computer system requires that the first resource be assigned to each of the one or more partitions in one or more discrete amounts, wherein the relationship includes the correspondence of a range of amounts of the second resource to at least one of the one or more discrete amounts, the method comprising: creating a table defining the relationship; storing the table, wherein the step of creating a table defining the relationship comprises: determining a range of amounts of the second resource, if any, that corresponds to each of the one or more discrete amounts in accordance with the relationship; and adding a row to the table for each of the one or more discrete amounts having a corresponding range of amounts of the second resource as determined in accordance with the relationship, wherein each added row stores a first value representing one of the one or more discrete amounts and a second and a third value representing the lower and the upper limits, respectively, of the range of amounts of the second resource determined in accordance with the relationship to correspond to the discrete amount represented by the first value stored in the respective row.