HP Instant Capacity User's Guide for versions B.07.x

Getting Started
Temporary Instant Capacity (TiCAP)
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Temporary Instant Capacity (TiCAP)
You can purchase an amount of processor temporary capacity in your
Instant Capacity system. Temporary capacity is purchased in units of
multiple processor-days. Temporary capacity allows one or more
processors above the normal license count to be activated for up to the
specified period of prepaid processor minutes, without requiring the
purchase of the processor.
You can activate and deactivate processors as you wish until the
activation time equals your prepaid temporary capacity duration. For
example, with a prepaid duration of 30 processor-days of temporary
capacity, you can activate one processor for 30 days or four processors for
one hour a day for 180 days (or any combination that totals 43,200
processor-minutes).
NOTE Temporary Capacity cannot be used to activate processors in inactive
Instant Capacity cell boards.
Your temporary capacity balance is decreased only when you are using
more processors than normally allowed by your system license count.
The charge against temporary capacity is not associated with specific
processors or partitions. That is, if you have activated one processor in
partition A using temporary capacity, and then deactivate any processor
in partition B, the complex will stop charging temporary capacity.
Temporary capacity can be added to a system that contains unlicensed
processors by purchasing and applying a temporary capacity codeword
(available from the Utility Pricing Solutions portal) using the
icod_modify -C command/option.
The icod_stat command provides information on the amount of
temporary capacity time remaining on the system/partition.
See Chapter 5, “Temporary Instant Capacity for Unlicensed Processors,”
on page 73 for more information.