HP Instant Capacity Version 10.x User Guide (5900-2985, March 2013)

Installing from the HP Software Depot (For HP-UX 11i v1, 11i v2, and 11i v3):.............................30
For All HP-UX installations...................................................................................................30
Installing iCAP on OpenVMS systems...................................................................................30
Reinstalling iCAP software.......................................................................................................31
Preserving current iCAP information......................................................................................31
Removing iCAP software..........................................................................................................31
4 Using iCAP to manage processing capacity.................................................32
Checking the status of your iCAP system....................................................................................32
Setting system contact information.............................................................................................34
Applying a Right To Use (RTU) codeword...................................................................................35
Activating Cores.....................................................................................................................36
Example core activation session...........................................................................................37
Deactivating cores..................................................................................................................38
Example deactivation session for hardware-partitionable systems..............................................38
Overriding deferred activation and deactivation.........................................................................39
Load-balancing active cores.....................................................................................................40
Understanding and managing intended active values..................................................................41
Activations and deactivations in a Virtual Partition environment.....................................................41
When to use the vparmodify or icapmodify commands...........................................................42
What is unused capacity....................................................................................................42
Static virtual partitions........................................................................................................42
Activating cores in a Virtual Partition environment...................................................................42
Deactivating cores in a Virtual Partition environment...............................................................43
Boot time compliance.........................................................................................................43
Assigning a cell to a partition..................................................................................................44
Unassigning a cell from a partition...........................................................................................45
Software application considerations..........................................................................................46
Test activation of cores using temporary capacity........................................................................46
Replacement of failed cores.....................................................................................................47
HP-UX LPMC and HPMC.....................................................................................................47
LPMC deactivations in vPars................................................................................................47
Failed Monarch Processors (HP-UX)......................................................................................47
Replacement of failed cores on OpenVMS............................................................................48
Failed OpenVMS primary processors...................................................................................48
5 TiCAP.....................................................................................................49
TiCAP overview......................................................................................................................49
Ordering TiCAP.....................................................................................................................50
HP-UX licensing and support with TiCAP...............................................................................50
OpenVMS licensing and support with TiCAP.........................................................................51
Using TiCAP..........................................................................................................................51
Acquiring and configuring TiCAP.........................................................................................51
Using TiCAP......................................................................................................................51
TiCAP and vPars.....................................................................................................................52
Tracking usage of TiCAP..........................................................................................................53
TiCAP warning period.............................................................................................................54
TiCAP expiration and compliance enforcement...........................................................................55
TiCAP exceptions....................................................................................................................55
Error for activation with insufficient TiCAP............................................................................103
Temporary capacity balance needing action.........................................................................55
Temporary capacity negative balance................................................................................104
Temporary capacity enforcement........................................................................................104
6 iCAP cell board.......................................................................................59
iCAP cell board......................................................................................................................59
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