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)

6 iCAP cell board.......................................................................................61
iCAP cell board......................................................................................................................61
Overview..........................................................................................................................61
Ordering iCAP cell board........................................................................................................62
HP-UX and OpenVMS license and support.................................................................................62
Acquiring usage rights for iCAP cell board................................................................................62
iCAP cell board and considerations of core usage rights..............................................................63
Activation of an iCAP cell board...............................................................................................64
Accidental activation of an iCAP cell board...............................................................................64
iCAP cell board activation exception error.................................................................................65
iCAP cell board and TiCAP......................................................................................................65
7 GiCAP....................................................................................................66
GiCAP overview.....................................................................................................................66
GiCAP requirements...............................................................................................................67
GiCAP Group Managers.........................................................................................................68
Standby Group Managers..................................................................................................68
GiCAP grouping rules.............................................................................................................69
GiCAP sharing rights..............................................................................................................69
GiCAP group creation.............................................................................................................70
GiCAP resource sharing..........................................................................................................72
Effect of temporary capacity................................................................................................73
Status reporting.................................................................................................................74
GiCAP and temporary capacity................................................................................................75
Temporary capacity and freed usage rights...........................................................................75
Temporary capacity and status reporting...............................................................................76
Temporary capacity prefetch...............................................................................................76
Removing a GiCAP group member...........................................................................................76
Reinstalling a group member....................................................................................................76
Group Manager availability (no standby manager).....................................................................77
Group Manager failover considerations.....................................................................................77
Upgrades and GiCAP.............................................................................................................78
Adding new partitions........................................................................................................78
Rights seizure.........................................................................................................................78
When to migrate usage rights and when to seize usage rights.................................................79
Effects of rights seizure........................................................................................................79
Scavenging seized rights to member.....................................................................................80
Down partitions with powered-on cells..................................................................................81
TiCAP and rights seizure.....................................................................................................81
Other considerations..........................................................................................................81
Additional HA solutions......................................................................................................82
Summary of rights seizure...................................................................................................82
Considerations for multiple groups............................................................................................83
Additional considerations........................................................................................................84
8 Using iCAP on HP Integrity Superdome 2....................................................86
HP Integrity Superdome 2 .......................................................................................................86
Overview..........................................................................................................................86
iCAP: From compliance check paradigm to self enforcement...............................................86
Important considerations.....................................................................................................87
Sizing partitions............................................................................................................87
Resizing partitions.........................................................................................................87
Memory iCAP...............................................................................................................87
Installing iCAP on HP Integrity Superdome 2.........................................................................88
iCAP commands................................................................................................................88
Checking the status of your iCAP system...........................................................................88
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