HP Instant Capacity Version 10.x User Guide (5900-2170, January 2012)

3 Installing and removing iCAP software........................................................33
Installing iCAP software...........................................................................................................33
Installing from the HP-UX media (HP-UX 11i v1, 11i v2, and 11i v3):..........................................33
Installing from the HP Software Depot (For HP-UX 11i v1, 11i v2, and 11i v3):.............................34
For All HP-UX installations...................................................................................................34
Installing iCAP on OpenVMS systems...................................................................................34
Reinstalling iCAP software.......................................................................................................35
Preserving current iCAP information......................................................................................35
Removing iCAP software..........................................................................................................35
4 Using iCAP to manage processing capacity.................................................37
Checking the status of your iCAP system....................................................................................37
Setting system contact information.............................................................................................39
Applying a Right To Use (RTU) codeword...................................................................................40
Activating Cores.....................................................................................................................41
Example core activation session...........................................................................................42
Deactivating cores..................................................................................................................43
Example deactivation session for hardware-partitionable systems..............................................43
Overriding deferred activation and deactivation.........................................................................44
Load-balancing active cores.....................................................................................................45
Understanding and managing intended active values..................................................................46
Activations and deactivations in a Virtual Partition environment.....................................................46
When to use the vparmodify or icapmodify commands...........................................................47
What is unused capacity....................................................................................................47
Static virtual partitions........................................................................................................47
Activating cores in a Virtual Partition environment...................................................................47
Deactivating cores in a Virtual Partition environment...............................................................48
Boot time compliance.........................................................................................................48
Assigning a cell to a partition..................................................................................................49
Unassigning a cell from a partition...........................................................................................50
Software application considerations..........................................................................................51
Test activation of cores using temporary capacity........................................................................51
Replacement of failed cores.....................................................................................................52
HP-UX LPMC and HPMC.....................................................................................................52
LPMC deactivations in vPars................................................................................................52
Failed Monarch Processors (HP-UX)......................................................................................52
Replacement of failed cores on OpenVMS............................................................................53
Failed OpenVMS primary processors...................................................................................53
5 TiCAP.....................................................................................................55
TiCAP overview......................................................................................................................55
Ordering TiCAP.....................................................................................................................56
HP-UX licensing and support with TiCAP...............................................................................56
OpenVMS licensing and support with TiCAP.........................................................................57
Using TiCAP..........................................................................................................................57
Acquiring and configuring TiCAP.........................................................................................57
Using TiCAP......................................................................................................................57
TiCAP and vPars.....................................................................................................................58
Tracking usage of TiCAP..........................................................................................................59
TiCAP warning period.............................................................................................................60
TiCAP expiration and compliance enforcement...........................................................................61
TiCAP exceptions....................................................................................................................61
Error for activation with insufficient TiCAP............................................................................107
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