User's Manual

Global Instant Capacity Sharing Rights
Although GiCAP is part of Instant Capacity and is installed at the same time as Instant Capacity,
it is not enabled during installation. To share resources across groups, you must purchase GiCAP
sharing rights, acquire the GiCAP codeword from the HP Utility Pricing Solutions portal (http://
www.hp.com/go/icap/portal), and apply the associated codeword to the Group Manager system.
Application of the sharing rights codeword to the Group Manager system enables the addition
of members with Instant Capacity components to groups.
You purchase at least as many GiCAP sharing rights as the total number of cores without usage
rights across all the potential group members. Members can be added to a GiCAP group as long
as there are sufficient sharing rights available, and as long as the grouping rules indicate hardware
compatibility.
Unlike other Instant Capacity codewords, GiCAP codewords must be generated for and applied
to a specific partition if the Group Manager is on a partitionable system. This means that to
retrieve the codeword, you must specify the purchase order number, the system serial number
and partition information, if any. Use the icapmanage -s command on the Group Manager
system to retrieve the serial number and nPar ID, or vPar code that is applicable.
GiCAP codewords have a sequence value and must be applied in the order in which they were
generated for the Group Manager system. However, GiCAP codewords are sequenced
independently from any other types of Instant Capacity codewords that might be generated for
the same system, and can therefore be applied independently from Instant Capacity codewords.
Example 7-1 shows how to apply a sharing rights codeword.
Example 7-1 Applying a Sharing Rights Codeword
> icapmanage -C R8J2DBW.5UTxyWQ.2MekJ43.G5cdTVP.1-m9kvweQ.AYqEXym.wj3dyLj.Fbtg7s1
The following valid codeword has been applied to the complex:
Global Instant Capacity Sharing Rights Codeword
32 Sharing Rights
Use icapmanage(1M) to see the results of the application of this codeword.
108 Global Instant Capacity