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

4 Using Instant Capacity to Manage Processing Capacity

This chapter covers the following topics:

• “Checking the Status of your Instant Capacity System” (page 50)

• “Setting System Contact Information” (page 52)

• “Applying a Right To Use (RTU) Codeword” (page 53)

• “Activating Cores” (page 55)

• “Deactivating Cores” (page 57)

• “Overriding Deferred Activation and Deactivation” (page 59)

• “Load-Balancing Active Cores” (page 60)

• “Understanding and Managing Intended Active Values” (page 61)

• “Activations and Deactivations in a Virtual Partition Environment” (page 62)

• “Assigning a Cell to a Partition” (page 65)

• “Unassigning a Cell from a Partition” (page 67)

• “Software Application Considerations” (page 69)

• “Test Activation of Cores Using Temporary Capacity” (page 70)

• “Replacement of Failed Cores” (page 71)