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

6.4 Acquiring Usage Rights for Instant Capacity Cell Board
Before activation of an (inactive) Instant Capacity cell board, you must acquire (purchase, or
borrow from a GiCAP group) additional usage rights from HP. To purchase additional usage
rights:
• Order the appropriate HP RTU product for the cell board for your specific class of HP server.
• Order the appropriate HP RTU product for the entire amount of Instant Capacity memory
on the cell board.
• Order the appropriate HP RTU products for the number of additional cores you want to
activate on the cell board. This number depends on several factors (and in some cases might
not be required); examine this need before ordering any cell board usage rights. For more
details about how to determine this number, see “Instant Capacity Cell Board and
Considerations of Core Usage Rights” (page 94).
HP sends you a letter that tells you on how to acquire RTU codewords for the purchased
components. The letter also describes how to apply the codewords to the system to increase the
usage rights on the complex. The steps are as follows:
1. Acquire the appropriate RTU codeword (cell board, memory, core) from the Utility Pricing
Solutions portal (http://www.hp.com/go/icap/portal).
2. Apply the appropriate RTU codeword (cell board, memory, core) using the icapmodify -C
command.
NOTE: If multiple RTU products are purchased at one time, a single codeword can be generated
that incorporates multiple usage rights for the different components.
IMPORTANT: RTU codewords are based on both the serial number of a system and a unique
sequencing value for that server. These codewords must be applied in the sequence in which
they are obtained for a particular server. They can be applied to any partition on the server.
For an alternative to purchasing usage rights, see Chapter 7 for a discussion of GiCAP and how
you can borrow usage rights from other members of a GiCAP group.
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