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

Overview..........................................................................................................................59
Ordering iCAP cell board........................................................................................................60
HP-UX and OpenVMS license and support.................................................................................60
Acquiring usage rights for iCAP cell board................................................................................60
iCAP cell board and considerations of core usage rights..............................................................61
Activation of an iCAP cell board...............................................................................................62
Accidental activation of an iCAP cell board...............................................................................62
iCAP cell board activation exception error.................................................................................63
iCAP cell board and TiCAP......................................................................................................63
7 GiCAP....................................................................................................64
GiCAP overview.....................................................................................................................64
GiCAP requirements...............................................................................................................65
GiCAP Group Managers.........................................................................................................66
Standby Group Managers..................................................................................................66
GiCAP grouping rules.............................................................................................................67
GiCAP sharing rights..............................................................................................................67
GiCAP Group creation............................................................................................................68
GiCAP resource sharing..........................................................................................................70
Effect of temporary capacity................................................................................................71
Status reporting.................................................................................................................72
GiCAP and temporary capacity................................................................................................73
Temporary capacity and freed usage rights...........................................................................73
Temporary capacity and status reporting...............................................................................74
Temporary capacity prefetch...............................................................................................74
Removing a GiCAP group member...........................................................................................74
Reinstalling a group member....................................................................................................74
Group Manager availability (no standby manager).....................................................................75
Group Manager failover considerations.....................................................................................75
Upgrades and GiCAP.............................................................................................................76
Adding new partitions........................................................................................................76
Rights seizure.........................................................................................................................76
When to migrate usage rights and when to seize usage rights.................................................77
Effects of rights seizure........................................................................................................77
Down partitions with powered-on cells..................................................................................78
TiCAP and rights seizure.....................................................................................................78
Other considerations..........................................................................................................78
Additional HA solutions......................................................................................................79
Summary of rights seizure...................................................................................................79
Considerations for Multiple Groups...........................................................................................80
Additional considerations........................................................................................................81
8 Using iCAP on HP Integrity Superdome 2....................................................82
HP Integrity Superdome 2 .......................................................................................................82
Overview..........................................................................................................................82
iCAP: From compliance check paradigm to self enforcement...............................................82
Important considerations.....................................................................................................83
Sizing partitions............................................................................................................83
Resizing partitions.........................................................................................................83
Memory iCAP...............................................................................................................83
Installing iCAP on HP Integrity Superdome 2.........................................................................84
iCAP commands................................................................................................................84
Checking the status of your iCAP system...........................................................................84
Generating snapshot.....................................................................................................85
Setting usage rights for a partition...................................................................................85
Making a system non-icap..............................................................................................85
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