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

About This Guide
The HP Instant Capacity User’s Guide for Versions 8.x provides you with the most recent information
for using the Instant Capacity version 8 software. This document describes Instant Capacity
version B.11.31.08.03.00 on HP-UX 11i v3 systems, B.11.23.08.03.00 on HP-UX 11i v2 systems,
B.11.11.08.03.00 on HP-UX 11i v1 systems, and Instant Capacity version 8.1 on OpenVMS 8.3-1H1
Integrity servers.
The latest version of this document can be found online at: http://docs.hp.com.
This chapter covers the following topics:
• “Intended Audience” (page 15)
• “New and Changed Information in This Edition” (page 15)
• “Publishing History” (page 16)
• “Document Organization” (page 17)
• “Typographic Conventions” (page 18)
• “Instant Capacity Information” (page 19)
• “Documentation Feedback” (page 20)
Intended Audience
All personnel with system administrator access (that is, with root login privileges on HP-UX
systems, or Administrators on OpenVMS systems) to an Instant Capacity system should read
and understand the contents of this document and the implications of managing an Instant
Capacity system.
Administrators are expected to have knowledge of HP-UX, or OpenVMS Integrity operating
system concepts, commands, and configuration.
This document is not a tutorial.
New and Changed Information in This Edition
This sixth edition of the HP Instant Capacity User’s Guide for Versions 8.x. has the following changes:
• iCAP version 8.03 includes support for vPars A.03.05, and support for the “integrated virtual
partition environment” on HP-UX 11.11, previously available only on HP-UX 11.23 and
11.31 systems. With this release, vPars A.03.05 is the minimum required version. In addition,
what had been previously called the “compatible virtual partition environment” is no longer
supported on HP-UX 11.11 systems.
• The format of the date displayed by the icapstatus command has been changed to facilitate
translation. Also, the format of the iCAP version number has been changed to provide more
information.
• The icap, icapmodify and icapstatus man pages have been updated.
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