HP Instant Capacity Version 10.x User Guide (762794-002, June 2014)

Installing from the HP-UX media (HP-UX 11i v1, 11i v2, and 11i v3):..........................................30
Installing from the HP software depot (For HP-UX 11i v1, 11i v2, and 11i v3):..............................31
For all HP-UX installations....................................................................................................31
Installing iCAP on OpenVMS systems...................................................................................31
Reinstalling iCAP software.......................................................................................................32
Preserving current iCAP information......................................................................................32
Removing iCAP software..........................................................................................................32
4 Using iCAP to manage processing capacity.................................................33
Checking the status of your iCAP system....................................................................................33
Setting system contact information.............................................................................................35
Applying a Right To Use (RTU) codeword...................................................................................36
Activating cores......................................................................................................................37
Example core activation session...........................................................................................38
Deactivating cores..................................................................................................................39
Example deactivation session for hardware-partitionable systems..............................................39
Overriding deferred activation and deactivation.........................................................................40
Load-balancing active cores.....................................................................................................41
Understanding and managing intended active values..................................................................42
Activations and deactivations in a virtual partition environment.....................................................42
When to use the vparmodify or icapmodify commands...........................................................43
What is unused capacity....................................................................................................43
Static virtual partitions........................................................................................................43
Activating cores in a virtual partition environment...................................................................43
Deactivating cores in a virtual partition environment...............................................................44
Boot time compliance.........................................................................................................44
Assigning a cell to a partition..................................................................................................45
Unassigning a cell from a partition...........................................................................................46
Balancing the distribution of I/O interrupts.................................................................................47
Software application considerations..........................................................................................47
Test activation of cores using temporary capacity........................................................................48
Replacement of failed cores.....................................................................................................48
HP-UX LPMC and HPMC.....................................................................................................48
LPMC deactivations in vPars................................................................................................49
Failed monarch processors (HP-UX).......................................................................................49
Replacement of failed cores on OpenVMS............................................................................49
Failed OpenVMS primary processors...................................................................................49
5 TiCAP.....................................................................................................50
TiCAP overview......................................................................................................................50
Ordering TiCAP.....................................................................................................................51
HP-UX licensing and support with TiCAP...............................................................................51
OpenVMS licensing and support with TiCAP.........................................................................52
Using TiCAP..........................................................................................................................52
Acquiring and configuring TiCAP.........................................................................................52
Using TiCAP......................................................................................................................52
TiCAP and vPars.....................................................................................................................53
Tracking usage of TiCAP..........................................................................................................54
TiCAP warning period.............................................................................................................55
TiCAP expiration and compliance enforcement...........................................................................56
TiCAP exceptions....................................................................................................................56
Error for activation with insufficient TiCAP..............................................................................56
Temporary capacity balance needing action.........................................................................56
Temporary capacity negative balance..................................................................................57
Temporary capacity enforcement..........................................................................................57
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