HP Instant Capacity User's Guide for Versions 8.x

How can I obtain codewords for newly purchased usage rights (RTUs) 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 versions 8.x,
if you desire to utilize additional components (cores, cell boards, or memory) then you must
acquire additional usage rights (RTUs) individually. See “Usage Rights Requirement” (page 33)
for details. To create a Global Instant Capacity group, you must purchase Sharing Rights. See
“Global Instant Capacity Sharing Rights” (page 103) for more information.
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 is able to control
the granularity of processor activation/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 may
be different than the original order — but the number of cores with and without usage rights
matches what was ordered.
For example, consider the situation where you order an rx8620 server with two 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; a total of 6
active and 2 inactive cores. At runtime, 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/coexist with partitions running software other than
HP-UX? Instant Capacity is supported only on HP-UX and OpenVMS Integrity systems. If
other partitions of an Instant Capacity system are running another operating system, then the
Instant Capacity software assumes that all the system components in the non-HP-UX and
OpenVMS partitions are active components (with usage rights). When checking for the correct
number of inactive components without usage rights, only the HP-UX and OpenVMS partitions
will be examined.
What e-mail is sent by the Instant Capacity software? The following table lists the e-mail
messages sent to the system from the Instant Capacity software. Note that on OpenVMS systems,
the iCAP software agent is ICAP_SERVER rather than icapd.
Table 9-1 E-mail sent by the Instant Capacity software
E-mail 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 non-compliance) 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 is deactivated at
boot time to enforce compliance)
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