User's Manual

Instant Capacity Compliance and Enforcement...................................................................................38
Configuration Change Notification......................................................................................................39
Core Activation.....................................................................................................................................40
Increasing Processing Capacity by Purchasing RTUs.....................................................................40
Instant Capacity Cell Board..................................................................................................................41
Instant Capacity Software Validation...................................................................................................42
On HP-UX Systems..........................................................................................................................42
On OpenVMS Systems....................................................................................................................42
Status Reporting on Instant Capacity Systems.....................................................................................43
Time Zone Considerations....................................................................................................................44
3 Installing and Removing Instant Capacity Software.................................................45
Installing Instant Capacity Software.....................................................................................................46
Installing from the HP-UX Media (HP-UX 11i v1, 11i v2, and 11i v3):...........................................46
Installing from the HP Software Depot (For HP-UX 11i v1, 11i v2, and 11i v3):............................47
For All HP-UX Installations.............................................................................................................47
Installing Instant Capacity on OpenVMS Systems.........................................................................47
Reinstalling Instant Capacity Software.................................................................................................48
Preserving current Instant Capacity information...........................................................................48
Removing Instant Capacity Software...................................................................................................49
4 Using Instant Capacity to Manage Processing Capacity........................................51
Checking the Status of your Instant Capacity System..........................................................................52
Setting System Contact Information.....................................................................................................54
Applying a Right To Use (RTU) Codeword..........................................................................................55
Activating Cores...................................................................................................................................57
Example Core Activation Session....................................................................................................58
Deactivating Cores................................................................................................................................59
Example Deactivation Session for Hardware-Partitionable Systems..............................................59
Overriding Deferred Activation and Deactivation...............................................................................61
Load-Balancing Active Cores................................................................................................................62
Understanding and Managing Intended Active Values.......................................................................63
Activations and Deactivations in a Virtual Partition Environment......................................................64
When to Use the vparmodify or icapmodify Commands...............................................................64
What is Unused Capacity................................................................................................................64
Static Virtual Partitions....................................................................................................................64
Activating Cores in a Virtual Partition Environment......................................................................65
Deactivating Cores in a Virtual Partition Environment..................................................................65
Boot Time Compliance....................................................................................................................66
Assigning a Cell to a Partition..............................................................................................................67
Unassigning a Cell from a Partition......................................................................................................69
Software Application Considerations...................................................................................................71
Test Activation of Cores Using Temporary Capacity...........................................................................72
Replacement of Failed Cores................................................................................................................73
HP-UX LPMC and HPMC...............................................................................................................73
LPMC Deactivations in Virtual Partitions.......................................................................................73
Failed Monarch Processors (HP-UX)...............................................................................................73
Replacement of Failed Cores on OpenVMS....................................................................................73
Failed OpenVMS Primary Processors.............................................................................................73
5 Temporary Instant Capacity........................................................................................75
Temporary Instant Capacity Overview................................................................................................76
Ordering Temporary Instant Capacity.................................................................................................78
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