User's Manual

HP-UX Licensing and Support with Temporary Instant Capacity.................................................78
OpenVMS Licensing and Support with Temporary Instant Capacity............................................78
Using Temporary Instant Capacity.......................................................................................................79
Acquiring and Configuring Temporary Instant Capacity...............................................................79
Using Temporary Instant Capacity.................................................................................................79
Temporary Capacity and Virtual Partitions..........................................................................................81
Tracking Usage of Temporary Instant Capacity...................................................................................83
Temporary Instant Capacity Warning Period.......................................................................................85
Temporary Instant Capacity Expiration and Compliance Enforcement..............................................86
Temporary Instant Capacity Exceptions...............................................................................................87
Error for Activation with Insufficient Temporary Capacity............................................................87
Temporary Capacity Balance Needing Action................................................................................87
Temporary Capacity Negative Balance...........................................................................................87
Temporary Capacity Enforcement..................................................................................................87
6 Instant Capacity Cell Board........................................................................................91
Instant Capacity Cell Board..................................................................................................................92
Overview.........................................................................................................................................92
Ordering Instant Capacity Cell Board..................................................................................................93
HP-UX and OpenVMS License and Support........................................................................................94
Acquiring Usage Rights for Instant Capacity Cell Board.....................................................................95
Instant Capacity Cell Board and Considerations of Core Usage Rights..............................................96
Activation of an Instant Capacity Cell Board.......................................................................................97
Accidental Activation of an Instant Capacity Cell Board.....................................................................98
Instant Capacity Cell Board Activation Exception Error......................................................................99
Instant Capacity Cell Board and Temporary Instant Capacity...........................................................100
7 Global Instant Capacity............................................................................................101
Global Instant Capacity Overview......................................................................................................102
Global Instant Capacity Requirements...............................................................................................104
Global Instant Capacity Group Managers..........................................................................................105
Standby Group Managers..............................................................................................................105
Global Instant Capacity Grouping Rules............................................................................................107
Global Instant Capacity Sharing Rights..............................................................................................108
Creating Global Instant Capacity Groups...........................................................................................109
Global Instant Capacity Resource Sharing.........................................................................................112
Effect of Temporary Capacity........................................................................................................112
Status Reporting............................................................................................................................113
Global Instant Capacity and Temporary Capacity.............................................................................115
Temporary Capacity and Freed Usage Rights...............................................................................115
Temporary Capacity and Status Reporting...................................................................................115
Temporary Capacity Prefetch........................................................................................................116
Removing a Global Instant Capacity Group Member........................................................................117
Reinstalling a Group Member.............................................................................................................118
Group Manager Availability (No Standby Manager).........................................................................119
Group Manager Failover Considerations...........................................................................................120
Upgrades and Global Instant Capacity...............................................................................................121
Adding New Partitions..................................................................................................................121
Rights Seizure......................................................................................................................................122
When to Migrate Usage Rights and When to Seize Usage Rights................................................122
Effects of Rights Seizure................................................................................................................122
Down Partitions with Powered-On Cells......................................................................................123
Temporary Capacity and Rights Seizure.......................................................................................123
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