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

Ordering Temporary Instant Capacity........................................................................................62
HP-UX Licensing and Support with Temporary Instant Capacity.................................................62
OpenVMS Licensing and Support with Temporary Instant Capacity..........................................63
Using Temporary Instant Capacity.............................................................................................63
Acquiring and Configuring Temporary Instant Capacity..........................................................63
Using Temporary Instant Capacity........................................................................................63
Temporary Capacity and Virtual Partitions.................................................................................64
Tracking Usage of Temporary Instant Capacity...........................................................................65
Temporary Instant Capacity Warning Period..............................................................................66
Temporary Instant Capacity Expiration and Compliance Enforcement............................................67
Temporary Instant Capacity Exceptions......................................................................................67
Error for Activation with Insufficient Temporary Capacity..........................................................67
Temporary Capacity Balance Needing Action.......................................................................67
Temporary Capacity Negative Balance.................................................................................68
Temporary Capacity Enforcement.........................................................................................68
6 Instant Capacity Cell Board.......................................................................71
Instant Capacity Cell Board.....................................................................................................71
Overview..........................................................................................................................71
Ordering Instant Capacity Cell Board........................................................................................72
HP-UX and OpenVMS License and Support................................................................................72
Acquiring Usage Rights for Instant Capacity Cell Board...............................................................72
Instant Capacity Cell Board and Considerations of Core Usage Rights...........................................73
Activation of an Instant Capacity Cell Board..............................................................................74
Accidental Activation of an Instant Capacity Cell Board...............................................................74
Instant Capacity Cell Board Activation Exception Error.................................................................75
Instant Capacity Cell Board and Temporary Instant Capacity........................................................75
7 Global Instant Capacity............................................................................77
Global Instant Capacity Overview............................................................................................77
Global Instant Capacity Requirements.......................................................................................78
Global Instant Capacity Group Managers.................................................................................79
Standby Group Managers..................................................................................................79
Global Instant Capacity Grouping Rules....................................................................................80
Global Instant Capacity Sharing Rights......................................................................................80
Creating Global Instant Capacity Groups..................................................................................81
Global Instant Capacity Resource Sharing.................................................................................83
Effect of Temporary Capacity...............................................................................................84
Status Reporting.................................................................................................................85
Global Instant Capacity and Temporary Capacity.......................................................................86
Temporary Capacity and Freed Usage Rights........................................................................86
Temporary Capacity and Status Reporting.............................................................................87
Temporary Capacity Prefetch...............................................................................................87
Removing a Global Instant Capacity Group Member...................................................................87
Reinstalling a Group Member...................................................................................................88
Group Manager Availability (No Standby Manager)..................................................................88
Group Manager Failover Considerations...................................................................................88
Upgrades and Global Instant Capacity.....................................................................................89
Adding New Partitions.......................................................................................................89
Rights Seizure........................................................................................................................89
When to Migrate Usage Rights and When to Seize Usage Rights.............................................90
Effects of Rights Seizure......................................................................................................90
Down Partitions with Powered-On Cells.................................................................................91
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