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

Temporary Capacity and Rights Seizure................................................................................91
Other Considerations.........................................................................................................91
Additional HA Solutions......................................................................................................92
Summary of Rights Seizure..................................................................................................92
Considerations for Multiple Groups...........................................................................................93
Additional Considerations........................................................................................................94
8 Using Instant Capacity on HP Integrity Superdome 2.....................................95
Overview..............................................................................................................................95
iCAP: From compliance check paradigm to self enforcement....................................................95
Important Considerations.........................................................................................................96
Sizing Partitions.................................................................................................................96
Resizing Partitions..............................................................................................................96
Memory iCAP...................................................................................................................97
Installing iCAP on HP Integrity Superdome 2..............................................................................97
iCAP commands.....................................................................................................................97
Checking the Status of your Instant Capacity System...............................................................97
Generating snapshot..........................................................................................................98
Setting usage rights for a partition........................................................................................98
Making a system non-icap..................................................................................................98
Deactivating Cores.............................................................................................................98
Activating Cores................................................................................................................99
Using iCAP Memory..........................................................................................................99
iCAP Use Cases...................................................................................................................100
Core migration between partitions in a complex..................................................................100
Core migration across complexes (GiCAP)..........................................................................100
Temporary Capacity (TiCAP)..................................................................................................101
Temporary Capacity commands.........................................................................................102
Assigning TiCAP to a partition......................................................................................102
Decrementing TiCAP assigned to a partition...................................................................102
Incrementing TiCAP assigned to a partition.....................................................................102
Using TiCAP balance to activate cores...........................................................................103
Setting the temporary Capacity warning period..............................................................103
TiCAP use cases..............................................................................................................103
Migrating TiCAP balance from one partition to another within the same complex................103
Migrating TiCAP balance between complexes (within GiCAP)...........................................104
9 Troubleshooting......................................................................................107
Handling Compliance Exceptions...........................................................................................107
Troubleshooting the Instant Capacity Software..........................................................................109
Diagnosing Email Configuration.............................................................................................111
10 Frequently Asked Questions....................................................................113
Instant Capacity Software......................................................................................................113
Instant Capacity Hardware....................................................................................................116
Global Instant Capacity.........................................................................................................116
1 Instant Capacity HP-UX Manpages............................................................117
iCAP(5)...............................................................................................................................118
icapmanage(1M)..................................................................................................................127
icapmodify(1M)....................................................................................................................142
icapnotify(1M)......................................................................................................................148
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