HP Instant Capacity for HP Integrity & HP 9000 Mid-range & Superdome Servers

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Activating HP Instant Capacity resources
The second step of the Instant Capacity acquisition and use process is the activation of the iCAP
components. This chapter discusses the permanent activation process. See the “Temporarily activating
and deactivating HP Instant Capacity processors with HP Temporary Instant Capacity or HP Instant
Access Capacity” section on page 18 for information on the process for temporary activation.
Figure 4. Process to permanently activate Instant Capacity components
As shown in Figure 4, to activate an iCAP component:
1. Order the RTUs for the iCAP components that will be activated.
2. After the order is processed by HP, obtain the RTU codewords from the Utility Pricing Solutions
portal.
3. Apply the codewords to the system.
4. Activate the iCAP components.
5. Order the necessary HP and third-party software license upgrades that might be required for the
additional active processors.
See the “Immediate activation of HP Instant Capacity components” section on page 9 for the process
to activate components before submitting a purchase order.