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

Temporary capacity balance needing action.........................................................................61
Temporary capacity negative balance................................................................................107
Temporary capacity enforcement........................................................................................107
6 iCAP cell board.......................................................................................65
iCAP cell board......................................................................................................................65
Overview..........................................................................................................................65
Ordering iCAP cell board........................................................................................................66
HP-UX and OpenVMS license and support.................................................................................66
Acquiring usage rights for iCAP cell board................................................................................66
iCAP cell board and considerations of core usage rights..............................................................67
Activation of an iCAP cell board...............................................................................................68
Accidental activation of an iCAP cell board...............................................................................68
iCAP cell board activation exception error.................................................................................69
iCAP cell board and TiCAP......................................................................................................69
7 GiCAP....................................................................................................71
GiCAP overview.....................................................................................................................71
GiCAP requirements...............................................................................................................72
GiCAP Group Managers.........................................................................................................73
Standby Group Managers..................................................................................................73
GiCAP grouping rules.............................................................................................................74
GiCAP sharing rights..............................................................................................................74
Creating GiCAP groups...........................................................................................................75
GiCAP resource sharing..........................................................................................................77
Effect of temporary capacity................................................................................................78
Status reporting.................................................................................................................79
GiCAP and temporary capacity................................................................................................80
Temporary capacity and freed usage rights...........................................................................80
Temporary capacity and status reporting...............................................................................81
Temporary capacity prefetch...............................................................................................81
Removing a GiCAP group member...........................................................................................81
Reinstalling a group member....................................................................................................81
Group Manager availability (no standby manager).....................................................................82
Group Manager failover considerations.....................................................................................82
Upgrades and GiCAP.............................................................................................................83
Adding new partitions........................................................................................................83
Rights seizure.........................................................................................................................83
When to migrate usage rights and when to seize usage rights.................................................84
Effects of rights seizure........................................................................................................84
Down partitions with powered-on cells..................................................................................85
TiCAP and rights seizure.....................................................................................................85
Other considerations..........................................................................................................85
Additional HA solutions......................................................................................................86
Summary of rights seizure...................................................................................................86
Considerations for Multiple Groups...........................................................................................87
Additional considerations........................................................................................................88
8 Using iCAP on HP Integrity Superdome 2....................................................89
HP Integrity Superdome 2 .......................................................................................................89
Overview..........................................................................................................................89
iCAP: From compliance check paradigm to self enforcement...............................................89
Important considerations.....................................................................................................90
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