HP Instant Capacity support for HP Integrity Superdome 2 with Dynamic Cores - Release Notes (762795-001, March 2014)

New features in Instant Capacity version 10.05 from version 10.04.01

The problem has been fixed where support is provided for GiCAP environment to work without

DNS setup.

Extended the expiry period for seized usage rights from 10 days in the past versions to 30 days.

New features in Instant Capacity version 10.04.01 (OS version) and HP

Instant Capacity firmware

The current HP Instant Capacity release is specifically targeted towards HP Integrity

Superdome 2. The major enhancements or changes are as follows:

• HP Instant Capacity is now installed with HP Integrated Firmware Bundle for HP Integrity

Superdome 2 Servers (Firmware bundle 2.51.102).

• Dynamic cores support on HP Integrity Superdome 2.

• Dynamic cores feature enables core migration with HP Instant Capacity and Global Workload

Manager (gWLM).

• Codeword enforcement of iCAP or TiCAP or GiCAP feature support on

HP Integrity Superdome 2.

• Self enforcement is no longer supported with HP Instant Capacity bundled with HP Integrated

Firmware Bundle 2.51.102.

For more information about Instant Capacity Product overview, see Section titled HP Integrity

Superdome 2 with Dynamic Cores in the Chapter titled Using iCAP on HP Integrity Superdome 2

in the HP Instant Capacity Version 10.x User Guide.

Known problems fixed in firmware bundle 3.7.60

• When using icapmanage to add a group member whose hostname contains at least one

upper case character, the command no longer incorrectly prompts for the root password

instead of the Onboard Administrator password.

• When several partitions were booted simultaneously, icapmodify sometimes failed with the

error Partition modifications are not allowed in the current state,

also resulting in core activation operations failing to execute, even though the partition was

ready to accept the command.

Known problems fixed in firmware bundle 3.6.48

• Enhancement feature: Once the kernel memory dump starts in an nPar, the number of the

activated cores in the nPar reduces to one.

• When adding a non-iCAP SD2 member to a GiCAP group, the loan-borrow and activation

operations do not work correctly.

HP Instant Capacity product overview

This section describes the changes in the HP Instant Capacity product on OA Firmware. The basic

features of iCAP are not modified by the introduction of iCAP on OA. However, there are some

significant changes.

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