HP Instant Capacity user's guide for Version 10.x (March 2011)

Contents
About This Guide........................................................................................11
Intended Audience..................................................................................................................11
New and Changed Information in This Edition............................................................................11
Publishing History...................................................................................................................11
Document Organization..........................................................................................................12
Typographic Conventions.........................................................................................................13
Location of Instant Capacity Information....................................................................................14
Instant Capacity user’s guide for Version 10.x........................................................................14
Locating the Instant Capacity release notes for Version 10.x.....................................................14
Manpages........................................................................................................................14
HP Encourages Your Comments................................................................................................15
1 Introduction to Instant Capacity..................................................................17
Instant Capacity Summary.......................................................................................................17
Terminology......................................................................................................................18
Overview..............................................................................................................................18
Software Product Overview.................................................................................................18
System Overview...............................................................................................................18
Instant Capacity System Hardware..................................................................................19
Instant Capacity Software...............................................................................................19
Utility Pricing Solutions Portal..........................................................................................20
Instant Capacity Administration System............................................................................20
Instant Capacity Database.............................................................................................20
Other System Management Commands...........................................................................20
Most Recent Instant Capacity Product Versions and Supported Platforms....................................21
Past Versions and Supported Operating Systems....................................................................22
2 Getting Started........................................................................................25
Instant Capacity Requirements..................................................................................................25
Program Requirements........................................................................................................25
Software Requirements.......................................................................................................25
HP-UX 11i v1 Requirements and Dependent Products..........................................................26
Required Patches for HP-UX 11i v1...................................................................................26
HP-UX 11i v2 Requirements and Dependent Products..........................................................27
Required Patches for HP-UX 11i v2...................................................................................27
HP-UX 11i v3 Requirements and Dependent Products..........................................................27
Required Patches for HP-UX 11i v3...................................................................................28
OpenVMS Version 8.4 Requirements...............................................................................28
Network Requirements........................................................................................................28
Email Requirements............................................................................................................28
System Contact Requirement................................................................................................29
Usage Rights Requirement...................................................................................................29
Instant Capacity Integration with Virtual Partitions (HP-UX).......................................................29
Instant Capacity Components...................................................................................................30
Overview..........................................................................................................................30
Processors and Cores.........................................................................................................30
Cell Boards and Memory....................................................................................................30
Global Instant Capacity...........................................................................................................31
Instant Capacity Codewords....................................................................................................31
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