HP Instant Capacity user's guide for Version 10.x, August 2010 (T1428-90080)
Temporary Capacity and Rights Seizure.......................................................................................125
Other Considerations.....................................................................................................................126
Additional HA Solutions...............................................................................................................126
Summary of Rights Seizure...........................................................................................................126
Considerations for Multiple Groups...................................................................................................129
Additional Considerations..................................................................................................................130
8 Using Instant Capacity on HP Integrity Superdome 2...........................................131
Overview.............................................................................................................................................131
iCAP: From compliance check paradigm to self enforcement......................................................131
Important Considerations...................................................................................................................132
Sizing Partitions.............................................................................................................................132
Resizing Partitions.........................................................................................................................132
Memory iCAP................................................................................................................................133
Installing iCAP on HP Integrity Superdome 2...................................................................................133
iCAP commands.................................................................................................................................133
Checking the Status of your Instant Capacity System...................................................................133
Generating snapshot......................................................................................................................134
Setting usage rights for a partition................................................................................................134
Making a system non-icap.............................................................................................................134
Deactivating Cores.........................................................................................................................134
Activating Cores............................................................................................................................135
Using iCAP Memory.....................................................................................................................135
iCAP Use Cases...................................................................................................................................135
Core migration between partitions in a complex..........................................................................135
Core migration across complexes (GiCAP)...................................................................................136
Temporary Capacity (TiCAP).............................................................................................................137
Temporary Capacity commands....................................................................................................138
Assigning TiCAP to a partition................................................................................................138
Decrementing TiCAP assigned to a partition..........................................................................138
Incrementing TiCAP assigned to a partition............................................................................138
Using TiCAP balance to activate cores.....................................................................................138
Setting the temporary Capacity warning period.....................................................................139
TiCAP use cases.............................................................................................................................139
Migrating TiCAP balance from one partition to another within the same complex...............139
Migrating TiCAP balance between complexes (within GiCAP)..............................................140
9 Troubleshooting..........................................................................................................143
Handling Compliance Exceptions......................................................................................................143
Troubleshooting the Instant Capacity Software..................................................................................146
Diagnosing Email Configuration........................................................................................................148
10 Frequently Asked Questions...................................................................................149
Instant Capacity Software...................................................................................................................150
Instant Capacity Hardware.................................................................................................................153
Global Instant Capacity.......................................................................................................................154
1 Instant Capacity HP-UX Manpages.........................................................................155
iCAP(5)................................................................................................................................................156
icapmanage(1M)..................................................................................................................................165
icapmodify(1M)...................................................................................................................................180
icapnotify(1M).....................................................................................................................................186
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