HP Instant Capacity user's guide for Version 10.x, August 2010 (T1428-90080)
Ordering Temporary Instant Capacity.................................................................................................80
HP-UX Licensing and Support with Temporary Instant Capacity.................................................80
OpenVMS Licensing and Support with Temporary Instant Capacity............................................80
Using Temporary Instant Capacity.......................................................................................................81
Acquiring and Configuring Temporary Instant Capacity...............................................................81
Using Temporary Instant Capacity.................................................................................................81
Temporary Capacity and Virtual Partitions..........................................................................................83
Tracking Usage of Temporary Instant Capacity...................................................................................85
Temporary Instant Capacity Warning Period.......................................................................................87
Temporary Instant Capacity Expiration and Compliance Enforcement..............................................88
Temporary Instant Capacity Exceptions...............................................................................................89
Error for Activation with Insufficient Temporary Capacity............................................................89
Temporary Capacity Balance Needing Action................................................................................89
Temporary Capacity Negative Balance...........................................................................................89
Temporary Capacity Enforcement..................................................................................................89
6 Instant Capacity Cell Board........................................................................................93
Instant Capacity Cell Board..................................................................................................................94
Overview.........................................................................................................................................94
Ordering Instant Capacity Cell Board..................................................................................................95
HP-UX and OpenVMS License and Support........................................................................................96
Acquiring Usage Rights for Instant Capacity Cell Board.....................................................................97
Instant Capacity Cell Board and Considerations of Core Usage Rights..............................................98
Activation of an Instant Capacity Cell Board.......................................................................................99
Accidental Activation of an Instant Capacity Cell Board...................................................................100
Instant Capacity Cell Board Activation Exception Error....................................................................101
Instant Capacity Cell Board and Temporary Instant Capacity...........................................................102
7 Global Instant Capacity............................................................................................103
Global Instant Capacity Overview......................................................................................................104
Global Instant Capacity Requirements...............................................................................................106
Global Instant Capacity Group Managers..........................................................................................107
Standby Group Managers..............................................................................................................107
Global Instant Capacity Grouping Rules............................................................................................109
Global Instant Capacity Sharing Rights..............................................................................................110
Creating Global Instant Capacity Groups...........................................................................................111
Global Instant Capacity Resource Sharing.........................................................................................114
Effect of Temporary Capacity........................................................................................................114
Status Reporting............................................................................................................................115
Global Instant Capacity and Temporary Capacity.............................................................................117
Temporary Capacity and Freed Usage Rights...............................................................................117
Temporary Capacity and Status Reporting...................................................................................117
Temporary Capacity Prefetch........................................................................................................118
Removing a Global Instant Capacity Group Member........................................................................119
Reinstalling a Group Member.............................................................................................................120
Group Manager Availability (No Standby Manager).........................................................................121
Group Manager Failover Considerations...........................................................................................122
Upgrades and Global Instant Capacity...............................................................................................123
Adding New Partitions..................................................................................................................123
Rights Seizure......................................................................................................................................124
When to Migrate Usage Rights and When to Seize Usage Rights................................................124
Effects of Rights Seizure................................................................................................................124
Down Partitions with Powered-On Cells......................................................................................125
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