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

Table of Contents
About This Guide.............................................................................................................11
Intended Audience................................................................................................................................11
New and Changed Information in This Edition...................................................................................11
Publishing History................................................................................................................................12
Document Organization.......................................................................................................................13
Typographic Conventions.....................................................................................................................14
Location of Instant Capacity Information.............................................................................................15
Instant Capacity User’s Guide for Version 9.x.................................................................................15
Locating the Instant Capacity Release Notes for Version 9.x..........................................................15
Manpages.........................................................................................................................................16
HP Encourages Your Comments..........................................................................................................16
1 Introduction to Instant Capacity..................................................................................17
1.1 Instant Capacity Summary..............................................................................................................18
1.1.1 Terminology............................................................................................................................19
1.2 Overview.........................................................................................................................................20
1.2.1 Software Product Overview....................................................................................................20
1.2.2 System Overview.....................................................................................................................20
1.2.2.1 Instant Capacity System Hardware................................................................................21
1.2.2.2 Instant Capacity Software...............................................................................................21
1.2.2.3 Utility Pricing Solutions Portal.......................................................................................22
1.2.2.4 Instant Capacity Administration System........................................................................22
1.2.2.5 Instant Capacity Database...............................................................................................22
1.2.2.6 Other System Management Commands.........................................................................22
1.2.3 Most Recent Instant Capacity Product Versions and Supported Platforms...........................23
1.2.4 Past Versions and Supported Operating Systems...................................................................24
2 Getting Started.............................................................................................................25
2.1 Instant Capacity Requirements.......................................................................................................26
2.1.1 Program Requirements...........................................................................................................26
2.1.2 Software Requirements...........................................................................................................26
2.1.2.1 HP-UX 11i v1 Requirements and Dependent Products..................................................26
2.1.2.2 Required Patches for HP-UX 11i v1................................................................................27
2.1.2.3 HP-UX 11i v2 Requirements and Dependent Products..................................................27
2.1.2.4 Required Patches for HP-UX 11i v2................................................................................27
2.1.2.5 HP-UX 11i v3 Requirements and Dependent Products..................................................28
2.1.2.6 OpenVMS Version 8.3-1H1 Requirements......................................................................28
2.1.3 Network Requirements...........................................................................................................28
2.1.4 Email Requirements................................................................................................................28
2.1.5 System Contact Requirement..................................................................................................29
2.1.6 Usage Rights Requirement......................................................................................................29
2.1.7 Instant Capacity Integration with Virtual Partitions (HP-UX)...............................................29
2.2 Instant Capacity Components.........................................................................................................31
2.2.1 Overview.................................................................................................................................31
2.2.2 Processors and Cores...............................................................................................................31
2.2.3 Cell Boards and Memory........................................................................................................31
2.3 Global Instant Capacity...................................................................................................................33
2.4 Instant Capacity Codewords...........................................................................................................34
2.5 Temporary Instant Capacity............................................................................................................35
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