HP Instant Capacity user's guide for Version 10.x, August 2010 (T1428-90080)

Temporary Instant Capacity.................................................................................................................39
Instant Capacity Compliance and Enforcement...................................................................................40
Configuration Change Notification......................................................................................................41
Core Activation.....................................................................................................................................42
Increasing Processing Capacity by Purchasing RTUs.....................................................................42
Instant Capacity Cell Board..................................................................................................................43
Instant Capacity Software Validation...................................................................................................44
On HP-UX Systems..........................................................................................................................44
On OpenVMS Systems....................................................................................................................44
Status Reporting on Instant Capacity Systems.....................................................................................45
Time Zone Considerations....................................................................................................................46
3 Installing and Removing Instant Capacity Software.................................................47
Installing Instant Capacity Software.....................................................................................................48
Installing from the HP-UX Media (HP-UX 11i v1, 11i v2, and 11i v3):...........................................48
Installing from the HP Software Depot (For HP-UX 11i v1, 11i v2, and 11i v3):............................49
For All HP-UX Installations.............................................................................................................49
Installing Instant Capacity on OpenVMS Systems.........................................................................49
Reinstalling Instant Capacity Software.................................................................................................50
Preserving current Instant Capacity information...........................................................................50
Removing Instant Capacity Software...................................................................................................51
4 Using Instant Capacity to Manage Processing Capacity........................................53
Checking the Status of your Instant Capacity System..........................................................................54
Setting System Contact Information.....................................................................................................56
Applying a Right To Use (RTU) Codeword..........................................................................................57
Activating Cores...................................................................................................................................59
Example Core Activation Session....................................................................................................60
Deactivating Cores................................................................................................................................61
Example Deactivation Session for Hardware-Partitionable Systems..............................................61
Overriding Deferred Activation and Deactivation...............................................................................63
Load-Balancing Active Cores................................................................................................................64
Understanding and Managing Intended Active Values.......................................................................65
Activations and Deactivations in a Virtual Partition Environment......................................................66
When to Use the vparmodify or icapmodify Commands...............................................................66
What is Unused Capacity................................................................................................................66
Static Virtual Partitions....................................................................................................................66
Activating Cores in a Virtual Partition Environment......................................................................67
Deactivating Cores in a Virtual Partition Environment..................................................................67
Boot Time Compliance....................................................................................................................68
Assigning a Cell to a Partition..............................................................................................................69
Unassigning a Cell from a Partition......................................................................................................71
Software Application Considerations...................................................................................................73
Test Activation of Cores Using Temporary Capacity...........................................................................74
Replacement of Failed Cores................................................................................................................75
HP-UX LPMC and HPMC...............................................................................................................75
LPMC Deactivations in Virtual Partitions.......................................................................................75
Failed Monarch Processors (HP-UX)...............................................................................................75
Replacement of Failed Cores on OpenVMS....................................................................................75
Failed OpenVMS Primary Processors.............................................................................................75
5 Temporary Instant Capacity........................................................................................77
Temporary Instant Capacity Overview................................................................................................78
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