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

5.2.1 HP-UX Licensing and Support with Temporary Instant Capacity.........................................76
5.2.2 OpenVMS Licensing and Support with Temporary Instant Capacity....................................76
5.3 Using Temporary Instant Capacity.................................................................................................77
5.3.1 Acquiring and Configuring Temporary Instant Capacity......................................................77
5.3.2 Using Temporary Instant Capacity.........................................................................................77
5.4 Temporary Capacity and Virtual Partitions....................................................................................79
5.5 Tracking Usage of Temporary Instant Capacity..............................................................................81
5.6 Temporary Instant Capacity Warning Period.................................................................................83
5.7 Temporary Instant Capacity Expiration and Compliance Enforcement.........................................84
5.8 Temporary Instant Capacity Exceptions.........................................................................................85
5.8.1 Error for Activation with Insufficient Temporary Capacity...................................................85
5.8.2 Temporary Capacity Balance Needing Action........................................................................85
5.8.3 Temporary Capacity Negative Balance...................................................................................85
5.8.4 Temporary Capacity Enforcement..........................................................................................85
6 Instant Capacity Cell Board........................................................................................89
6.1 Instant Capacity Cell Board.............................................................................................................90
6.1.1 Overview.................................................................................................................................90
6.2 Ordering Instant Capacity Cell Board.............................................................................................91
6.3 HP-UX and OpenVMS License and Support..................................................................................92
6.4 Acquiring Usage Rights for Instant Capacity Cell Board...............................................................93
6.5 Instant Capacity Cell Board and Considerations of Core Usage Rights.........................................94
6.6 Activation of an Instant Capacity Cell Board..................................................................................95
6.7 Accidental Activation of an Instant Capacity Cell Board...............................................................96
6.8 Instant Capacity Cell Board Activation Exception Error................................................................97
6.9 Instant Capacity Cell Board and Temporary Instant Capacity.......................................................98
7 Global Instant Capacity..............................................................................................99
7.1 Global Instant Capacity Overview................................................................................................100
7.2 Global Instant Capacity Requirements..........................................................................................102
7.3 Global Instant Capacity Group Managers.....................................................................................103
7.3.1 Standby Group Managers.....................................................................................................103
7.4 Global Instant Capacity Grouping Rules......................................................................................105
7.5 Global Instant Capacity Sharing Rights........................................................................................106
7.6 Creating Global Instant Capacity Groups.....................................................................................107
7.7 Global Instant Capacity Resource Sharing....................................................................................110
7.7.1 Effect of Temporary Capacity................................................................................................110
7.7.2 Status Reporting....................................................................................................................111
7.8 Global Instant Capacity and Temporary Capacity........................................................................113
7.8.1 Temporary Capacity and Freed Usage Rights.......................................................................113
7.8.2 Temporary Capacity and Status Reporting...........................................................................113
7.8.3 Temporary Capacity Prefetch................................................................................................114
7.9 Removing a Global Instant Capacity Group Member...................................................................115
7.10 Reinstalling a Group Member.....................................................................................................116
7.11 Group Manager Availability (No Standby Manager)..................................................................117
7.12 Group Manager Failover Considerations....................................................................................118
7.13 Upgrades and Global Instant Capacity.......................................................................................119
7.13.1 Adding New Partitions........................................................................................................119
7.14 Rights Seizure..............................................................................................................................120
7.14.1 When to Migrate Usage Rights and When to Seize Usage Rights......................................120
7.14.2 Effects of Rights Seizure......................................................................................................120
7.14.3 Down Partitions with Powered-On Cells............................................................................121
7.14.4 Temporary Capacity and Rights Seizure.............................................................................121
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