HP Instant Capacity User's Guide for Version 9.x

How can I obtain codewords for newly purchased usage rights if the Utility Pricing Solutions portal
is down? If the Utility Pricing Solutions portal is down, contact the HP Response Center. The
Response Center can create an emergency codeword via the Instant Capacity codeword backup
tool.
What licensing is required for the Instant Capacity software? For Instant Capacity version 9.x,
to activate additional components (cores, cell boards, or memory), you must acquire additional
usage rights individually. For details, see “Usage Rights Requirement” (page 29)s. To create a
Global Instant Capacity group, you must purchase sharing rights. For more information about
sharing rights, see “Global Instant Capacity Sharing Rights” (page 106).
The resulting configuration of my Instant Capacity system does not agree with what I ordered from
HP. How did this configuration change occur? The Instant Capacity software can control the
granularity of processor activation or deactivation to the single-core level. The Instant Capacity
ordering and manufacturing rules often do not allow such fine granularity.
The Instant Capacity ordering rules dictate the quantity of cores with and without usage rights
in the cell boards. Because the Instant Capacity software distributes the core usage rights (for a
given partition) in a manner that optimizes loads across all cells, the resultant configuration
might be different than the original order. However, the number of cores with and without usage
rights matches what was ordered.
For example, suppose you order an rx8620 server with 2 cell boards, in which the first cell board
contains 4 active cores with usage rights, and the second cell board contains 2 active cores with
usage rights and 2 inactive cores without usage rights, for a total of 6 active and 2 inactive cores.
At run time, the Instant Capacity software balances the distribution of active cores across the
cell boards so that each cell has 3 active cores with usage rights and 1 inactive core without usage
rights.
How does Instant Capacity interact and coexist with partitions running software other than
HP-UX? Instant Capacity is supported only on HP-UX and OpenVMS for Integrity systems. If
other partitions of an Instant Capacity system are running another operating system, all the
system components in the non-HP-UX and OpenVMS partitions appear to the Instant Capacity
software as active components (with usage rights). When verifying the correct number of inactive
components without usage rights, only the HP-UX and OpenVMS partitions are examined.
What email is sent by the Instant Capacity software? The following table lists the email messages
sent to the system from the Instant Capacity software. On OpenVMS systems, the iCAP software
agent is ICAP_SERVER rather than icapd.
Table 9-1 Email sent by the Instant Capacity software
Email MessageTriggered By
Information about the configuration change is sent to the system
contact, if specified, and if change notification is set to “on”.
icapmodify (if a configuration change
occurs)
A temporary capacity expiration notification is sent to the system
contact, if specified, and root.
icapd (daily, when the projected TiCAP
balance expiration is less than the warning
period: by default, when less than 15 days)
An exception report (for noncompliance) is sent to the system contact,
if specified, and root.
icapd (daily, if more than expected cores,
memory, cells, are active; also if TiCAP has a
negative balance)
An Instant Capacity enforcement message is sent to the system contact,
if specified, and root.
icapd (if one or more cores are deactivated
at boot time to enforce compliance)
Information about why the virtual partition is not being allowed to
boot is sent to the system contact, if specified, and root.
vPars startup (when the virtual partition has
more cores assigned to it than the number of
intended active cores for the nPartition)
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