HP Instant Capacity Version 10.x Release Notes (5900-1580, March 2011)

1 Instant Capacity 10.x release notes
This chapter covers the following topics:
• “Instant Capacity Product Overview” (page 5)
• “Location of Instant Capacity Information” (page 5)
• “Most Recent Instant Capacity Product Versions and Supported Platforms” (page 7)
• “Past Versions and Supported Operating Systems” (page 8)
For details about the changes to Instant Capacity version 10.x software, see Chapter 2.
NOTE: HP Instant Capacity for HP 9000 and HP Integrity Servers, also known as Instant Capacity
or iCAP, was known in earlier versions as Instant Capacity on Demand, or iCOD. Although the
commands, warning messages and error messages refer to the software as iCAP, some internal
files might still refer to iCOD.
Instant Capacity Product Overview
HP Instant Capacity software provides the ability to instantly increase or decrease processing
capacity on specified HP enterprise servers. With Instant Capacity, you initially purchase an HP
enterprise server with a specified amount of active processing capacity, and a specified amount
of inactive processing capacity (Instant Capacity components).
The following Instant Capacity software products are associated with HP’s Utility Pricing Solutions
program:
• iCAP: HP product number B9073BA (HP-UX)
• iCAP: HP OpenVMS product number BA484AA
These release notes contain information for Instant Capacity version 10.x on HP-UX systems and
version 9.x (or later) on OpenVMS systems.
Instant Capacity must be run on a partitionable system. In an Integrity Virtual Machines (VM)
environment, Instant Capacity software provides meaningful functionality only on the VM Host
system; it does not run on a virtual machine (also known as a “guest”).
The Instant Capacity product has been available on HP-UX since March 2000 (version B.01.00).
The HP-UX version 10.x software can be obtained from the following HP Software Depot website.
The product ID is B9073BA. You can use the product ID or use the search string “Instant Capacity”
for searching the iCAP 10.x software.
http://www.hp.com/go/softwaredepot
Location of Instant Capacity Information
HP Instant Capacity Version 10.x Release Notes
You can find the HP Instant Capacity Version 10.x Release Notes in the following locations:
• On the Business Support Center (BSC) website:
www.hp.com/go/hp-icap-docs
These are the most current release notes and the most current localized versions.
• March 2011 HP-UX 11i v3 Instant Information media (English, Simplified Chinese, and
Japanese only)
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