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

Temporary Instant Capacity.....................................................................................................32
Instant Capacity Compliance and Enforcement...........................................................................33
Configuration Change Notification...........................................................................................33
Core Activation......................................................................................................................34
Increasing Processing Capacity by Purchasing RTUs................................................................34
Instant Capacity Cell Board.....................................................................................................35
Instant Capacity Software Validation.........................................................................................35
On HP-UX Systems.............................................................................................................35
On OpenVMS Systems.......................................................................................................36
Status Reporting on Instant Capacity Systems..............................................................................36
Time Zone Considerations........................................................................................................36
3 Installing and Removing Instant Capacity Software........................................39
Installing Instant Capacity Software...........................................................................................39
Installing from the HP-UX Media (HP-UX 11i v1, 11i v2, and 11i v3):..........................................39
Installing from the HP Software Depot (For HP-UX 11i v1, 11i v2, and 11i v3):.............................40
For All HP-UX Installations...................................................................................................40
Installing Instant Capacity on OpenVMS Systems...................................................................40
Reinstalling Instant Capacity Software.......................................................................................41
Preserving current Instant Capacity information......................................................................41
Removing Instant Capacity Software..........................................................................................41
4 Using Instant Capacity to Manage Processing Capacity................................43
Checking the Status of your Instant Capacity System....................................................................43
Setting System Contact Information............................................................................................45
Applying a Right To Use (RTU) Codeword..................................................................................46
Activating Cores.....................................................................................................................47
Example Core Activation Session.........................................................................................48
Deactivating Cores.................................................................................................................49
Example Deactivation Session for Hardware-Partitionable Systems............................................49
Overriding Deferred Activation and Deactivation........................................................................50
Load-Balancing Active Cores....................................................................................................51
Understanding and Managing Intended Active Values.................................................................52
Activations and Deactivations in a Virtual Partition Environment....................................................52
When to Use the vparmodify or icapmodify Commands.........................................................53
What is Unused Capacity...................................................................................................53
Static Virtual Partitions........................................................................................................53
Activating Cores in a Virtual Partition Environment..................................................................53
Deactivating Cores in a Virtual Partition Environment..............................................................54
Boot Time Compliance.......................................................................................................54
Assigning a Cell to a Partition..................................................................................................55
Unassigning a Cell from a Partition...........................................................................................56
Software Application Considerations.........................................................................................57
Test Activation of Cores Using Temporary Capacity.....................................................................57
Replacement of Failed Cores....................................................................................................58
HP-UX LPMC and HPMC.....................................................................................................58
LPMC Deactivations in Virtual Partitions.................................................................................58
Failed Monarch Processors (HP-UX)......................................................................................58
Replacement of Failed Cores on OpenVMS...........................................................................59
Failed OpenVMS Primary Processors....................................................................................59
5 Temporary Instant Capacity.......................................................................61
Temporary Instant Capacity Overview.......................................................................................61
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