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Other Considerations.....................................................................................................................124
Additional HA Solutions...............................................................................................................124
Summary of Rights Seizure...........................................................................................................124
Considerations for Multiple Groups...................................................................................................127
Additional Considerations..................................................................................................................128
8 Using Instant Capacity on HP Integrity Superdome 2...........................................129
Overview.............................................................................................................................................129
iCAP: From compliance check paradigm to self enforcement......................................................129
Important Considerations...................................................................................................................130
Sizing Partitions.............................................................................................................................130
Resizing Partitions.........................................................................................................................130
Memory iCAP................................................................................................................................130
Installing iCAP on HP Integrity Superdome 2...................................................................................130
iCAP commands.................................................................................................................................131
Viewing number of active cores....................................................................................................131
Generating snapshot......................................................................................................................131
Setting usage rights for a partition................................................................................................132
Deactivating Cores.........................................................................................................................132
Activating Cores............................................................................................................................132
Using iCAP Memory.....................................................................................................................132
iCAP Use Cases...................................................................................................................................133
Core migration between partitions in a complex..........................................................................133
Core migration across complexes (GiCAP)...................................................................................134
9 Troubleshooting..........................................................................................................137
Handling Compliance Exceptions......................................................................................................137
Troubleshooting the Instant Capacity Software..................................................................................140
Diagnosing Email Configuration........................................................................................................142
10 Frequently Asked Questions...................................................................................143
Instant Capacity Software...................................................................................................................144
Instant Capacity Hardware.................................................................................................................147
Global Instant Capacity.......................................................................................................................148
1 Instant Capacity HP-UX Manpages.........................................................................149
iCAP(5)................................................................................................................................................150
icapmanage(1M)..................................................................................................................................159
icapmodify(1M)...................................................................................................................................174
icapnotify(1M).....................................................................................................................................180
icapstatus(1M).....................................................................................................................................182
icapd(1M)............................................................................................................................................189
A Special Considerations.............................................................................................191
Assumed Values in icapstatus Command..........................................................................................192
Assumed Processor Values............................................................................................................192
Assumed Memory Values..............................................................................................................192
Upgrading to Instant Capacity version B.06.x or later (HP-UX)........................................................193
Dual-Core Support in Instant Capacity Systems................................................................................195
New Partition Creation and Instant Capacity.....................................................................................196
Implications of Removing a Cell from an Instant Capacity System ..................................................197
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