HP Instant Capacity support 10.x Release Notes (762795-002, June 2014)

NOTE:
• GM(Group Manager) and OA of the member complexes in GiCAP group must be able to
establish a TCP connection initiated by either of them when necessary.
• Communication occurs only between GM and OA through SSL certificates, and the partition
details are hidden from Group Manager.
• Communication occurs through Port 5989, 80, and 7, so these ports must be open on any
firewalls between the GM and OA.
• Communication occurs between OA and DNS if OA is configured to resolve the IP addresses
for GMs.
• The CIM Server configuration property sslClientVerificationMode must be set to optional
and enableHttpsConnection must be set to true on all GiCAP Group Managers and OS
instances of all the member systems.
• While adding HP Integrity Superdome 2 systems (member systems) to a GiCAP group, the
host name of both the Active Onboard Administrator and Standby Onboard Administrator
can be given in same order shown in the following command:
icapmanage -a -m member_name:active_OA,standby_OA -g group_name
NOTE: Here Standby Onboard Administrator is optional.
• When dual OA is configured with GM and the Active OA fails to respond, but standby OA
is reachable, icapmanage -x might fail. Since active OA is not actually down, but its network
is not reachable, standby OA will not takeover automatically. To recover from this situation
user has to execute “force takeover ”on standby OA.
Installing and configuring Instant Capacity firmware and HP Instant
Capacity 10.x (HP-UX OS version)
Downloading HP Integrated firmware Bundle – HP Integrity Superdome 2 servers
The HP Instant Capacity Firmware is bundled along with Integrated Firmware Bundle—for HP
Integrity Superdome 2 Servers.
• Latest OA(Onboard Administrator) firmware version.
For more information on how to download, install, and upgrade the latest firmware version,
see HP Release sets for HP Superdome 2 servers.
• OE version and patch requirements for nPars and vPars A.05.x on HP-UX 11i v3.
See the firmware release notes to be installed.
• HP WBEM services version requirements for Group Manager OS.
When at least one member with the firmware version 3.6.48 or later is added to a GiCAP
group, HP WBEM services A.02.09.14 or later must be installed on the GM OS. If all the
members of HP Integrity Superdome 2 have the firmware version 2.53.0 or earlier, HP WBEM
services A.02.09.10 or later must be installed.
• GM grouping rules version requirements.
When at least one member is a HP Superdome 2 server ( i2/i4 blades), GM must have the
grouping rules version 2.19.
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