User's Manual

Overview
Software Product Overview
The following Instant Capacity software products are associated with HP’s Utility Pricing
Solutions program:
• iCOD: HP product number B9073BA (HP-UX)
• iCAP: HP OpenVMS product number BA484AA
This user's guide contains information for Instant Capacity version 10.x on HP-UX systems and
version 9.x on OpenVMS systems.
Instant Capacity must be run on a partitionable system. In an Integrity Virtual Machines (VM)
environment, Instant Capacity software provides meaningful functionality only on the VM Host
system; it does not run on a virtual machine (also known as a “guest”).
The Instant Capacity product has been available on HP-UX since March 2000 (version B.01.00).
The HP-UX version 9.x software can be obtained from the following HP Software Depot website
(search for “Instant Capacity”):
http://www.hp.com/go/softwaredepot
System Overview
Instant Capacity version 9.x consists of the following elements:
• Instant Capacity system hardware (including cells, cores, and memory)
• Instant Capacity software
• Utility Pricing Solutions Portal
• Instant Capacity Administration System
• Instant Capacity database
• Other system management commands
For more information about Instant Capacity concepts and methods, see Chapter 2: “Getting
Started” (page 27).
Figure 1-1 (page 21) shows how the Instant Capacity system elements and processes are linked.
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