HP Instant Capacity Version 10.x User Guide HP-UX 11i v1, HP-UX 11i v2, and HP-UX 11i v3 (5900-3361, December 2013)

Installing from the HP-UX media (HP-UX 11i v1, 11i v2, and 11i v3):..........................................31
Installing from the HP software depot (For HP-UX 11i v1, 11i v2, and 11i v3):..............................32
For all HP-UX installations....................................................................................................32
Installing iCAP on OpenVMS systems...................................................................................32
Reinstalling iCAP software.......................................................................................................33
Preserving current iCAP information......................................................................................33
Removing iCAP software..........................................................................................................33
4 Using iCAP to manage processing capacity.................................................34
Checking the status of your iCAP system....................................................................................34
Setting system contact information.............................................................................................36
Applying a Right To Use (RTU) codeword...................................................................................37
Activating cores......................................................................................................................38
Example core activation session...........................................................................................39
Deactivating cores..................................................................................................................40
Example deactivation session for hardware-partitionable systems..............................................40
Overriding deferred activation and deactivation.........................................................................41
Load-balancing active cores.....................................................................................................42
Understanding and managing intended active values..................................................................43
Activations and deactivations in a virtual partition environment.....................................................43
When to use the vparmodify or icapmodify commands...........................................................44
What is unused capacity....................................................................................................44
Static virtual partitions........................................................................................................44
Activating cores in a virtual partition environment...................................................................44
Deactivating cores in a virtual partition environment...............................................................45
Boot time compliance.........................................................................................................45
Assigning a cell to a partition..................................................................................................46
Unassigning a cell from a partition...........................................................................................47
Balancing the distribution of I/O interrupts.................................................................................48
Software application considerations..........................................................................................48
Test activation of cores using temporary capacity........................................................................49
Replacement of failed cores.....................................................................................................49
HP-UX LPMC and HPMC.....................................................................................................49
LPMC deactivations in vPars................................................................................................50
Failed monarch processors (HP-UX).......................................................................................50
Replacement of failed cores on OpenVMS............................................................................50
Failed OpenVMS primary processors...................................................................................50
5 TiCAP.....................................................................................................51
TiCAP overview......................................................................................................................51
Ordering TiCAP.....................................................................................................................52
HP-UX licensing and support with TiCAP...............................................................................52
OpenVMS licensing and support with TiCAP.........................................................................53
Using TiCAP..........................................................................................................................53
Acquiring and configuring TiCAP.........................................................................................53
Using TiCAP......................................................................................................................53
TiCAP and vPars.....................................................................................................................54
Tracking usage of TiCAP..........................................................................................................55
TiCAP warning period.............................................................................................................56
TiCAP expiration and compliance enforcement...........................................................................57
TiCAP exceptions....................................................................................................................57
Error for activation with insufficient TiCAP............................................................................107
Temporary capacity balance needing action.........................................................................57
Temporary capacity negative balance................................................................................108
Temporary capacity enforcement........................................................................................108
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