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

Acquisition of Usage Rights (RTU) 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 Right to Use (RTU) product for the cell board for your specific
class of HP server.
• Order the appropriate HP Right to Use (RTU) product for the entire amount of Instant
Capacity memory on the cell board.
• Order the appropriate HP Right to Use (RTU) products for the number of additional cores
you want to activate on the cell board. This number will depend on several factors (and in
some cases may not be required), but you should examine this before ordering any cell
board-related usage rights. See “Instant Capacity Cell Board and Considerations of Core
Usage Rights” (page 92) for more details about how to determine this number.
HP then sends you a letter that contains details on how to acquire RTU codeword(s*) 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:
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
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.
* Note that if multiple RTU products are purchased at one time, a single codeword may be
generated that incorporates multiple usage rights for the different components.
For an alternative to purchasing usage rights, see Chapter 7 for a discussion of GiCAP and how
usage rights may be borrowed from other members of a GiCAP group on HP-UX systems.
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