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

Cell Board Instant Capacity
Cell Board Instant Capacity
Chapter 692
Cell Board Instant Capacity
Overview
Cell Board Instant Capacity offers you a way to have additional
(inactive) cell board capacity in your system for growing business needs.
When the need arises, cell boards, which contain memory and processors,
can be licensed for activation and use.
An Instant Capacity cell board is configured at HP manufacturing
already assigned to an nPartition (hard partition) with its
use-on-next-boot flag set to “n” (no), so it does not participate in the
boot of the nPartition.
After a cell board is licensed, including all of the memory on the cell
board and at least one processor (or an available processor license exists
in the complex), the cell board is available for activation and
participation in the boot of the nPartition. This is controlled by setting
the use-on-next-boot flag to “y” (yes) with the parmodify command
and rebooting the nPartition.
NOTE If a cell board is not fully licensed, the Instant Capacity software
prevents it from being configured to participate (become active) in the
boot of an nPartition.
Any cell board, whether licensed or not, can be assigned to an nPartition
with the use-on-next-boot flag set to “n” (no).
Because an active cell board must have a minimum of one active
processor, prior to activation of a cell board, one of the following must be
true:
• An unused/unclaimed processor license is available in the complex
• An additional processor license must be purchased and the RTU
codeword applied to the complex