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Example: Cell/Memory Sharing
In this scenario, member1 of the group mygroup has an inactive cell it wants to activate, but no
usage rights are available on the system. However, member2 of the group has available usage
rights.
First, the output from the icapstatus command on member1 shows that no cell or memory
usage rights are available:
Instant Capacity Resource Summary
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Number of cells without usage rights: 1
Number of inactive cells: 1
Amount of memory without usage rights: 16.0 GB
Amount of inactive memory: 16.0 GB
Number of cores without usage rights: 8
Number of inactive cores: 8
The output of the icapstatus command on member2 shows that memory and cell usage rights
are available, along with 1 core usage right:
Instant Capacity Resource Summary
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Number of cells without usage rights: 1
Number of inactive cells: 2
Amount of memory without usage rights: 16.0 GB
Amount of inactive memory: 32.0 GB
Number of cores without usage rights: 7
Number of inactive cores: 8
In this situation, it is not necessary to deactivate components on member2 because the system
is underutilized and usage rights are available. The usage rights from member2 are available to
member1, and the cell can be activated:
member1> parmodify -p 0 -m 2::y:
After a reboot or (on HP-UX 11.31 OEUR 0709 or later) a Cell Online Activation, all of the cell
and memory components on member1 are active.
114 Global Instant Capacity