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

6 iCAP cell board.......................................................................................60
iCAP cell board......................................................................................................................60
Overview..........................................................................................................................60
Ordering iCAP cell board........................................................................................................61
HP-UX and OpenVMS license and support.................................................................................61
Acquiring usage rights for iCAP cell board................................................................................61
iCAP cell board and considerations of core usage rights..............................................................62
Activation of an iCAP cell board...............................................................................................63
Accidental activation of an iCAP cell board...............................................................................63
iCAP cell board activation exception error.................................................................................64
iCAP cell board and TiCAP......................................................................................................64
7 GiCAP....................................................................................................65
GiCAP overview.....................................................................................................................65
GiCAP requirements...............................................................................................................66
GiCAP Group Managers.........................................................................................................67
Standby Group Managers..................................................................................................67
GiCAP grouping rules.............................................................................................................68
GiCAP sharing rights..............................................................................................................68
GiCAP group creation.............................................................................................................69
GiCAP resource sharing..........................................................................................................71
Effect of temporary capacity................................................................................................72
Status reporting.................................................................................................................73
GiCAP and temporary capacity................................................................................................74
Temporary capacity and freed usage rights...........................................................................74
Temporary capacity and status reporting...............................................................................75
Temporary capacity prefetch...............................................................................................75
Removing a GiCAP group member...........................................................................................75
Reinstalling a group member....................................................................................................75
Group Manager availability (no standby manager).....................................................................76
Group Manager failover considerations.....................................................................................76
Upgrades and GiCAP.............................................................................................................77
Adding new partitions........................................................................................................77
Rights seizure.........................................................................................................................77
When to migrate usage rights and when to seize usage rights.................................................78
Effects of rights seizure........................................................................................................78
Scavenging seized rights to member.....................................................................................79
Down partitions with powered-on cells..................................................................................80
TiCAP and rights seizure.....................................................................................................80
Other considerations..........................................................................................................80
Additional HA solutions......................................................................................................81
Summary of rights seizure...................................................................................................81
Considerations for multiple groups............................................................................................82
Additional considerations........................................................................................................83
8 Using iCAP on HP Integrity Superdome 2....................................................85
HP Integrity Superdome 2 .......................................................................................................85
Overview..........................................................................................................................85
iCAP: From compliance check paradigm to self enforcement...............................................85
Important considerations.....................................................................................................86
Sizing partitions............................................................................................................86
Resizing partitions.........................................................................................................86
Memory iCAP...............................................................................................................86
Installing iCAP on HP Integrity Superdome 2.........................................................................87
iCAP commands................................................................................................................87
Checking the status of your iCAP system...........................................................................87
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