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

New Partition Creation and Instant Capacity
You can assign a cell to an existing partition even if the cell contains cores without usage rights
(Instant Capacity processors), as long as there are enough available core, cell and memory usage
rights to cover activation of the cell, its memory, and at least one of the cores on the cell. In this
case, it can be verified that the partition has valid Instant Capacity software installed, and that
the partition is running an operating system capable of activating and deactivating cores.
However, at the time a new partition is created, these verifications are not possible; therefore,
the Instant Capacity software does not allow the partition to be created unless it contains only
components with usage rights. That is, new partition creation fails if any of the cell boards contain
Instant Capacity components without usage rights.
174 Special Considerations