HP Instant Capacity Version 10.x User Guide (5900-1581, March 2011)

Contents
1 Introduction to Instant Capacity..................................................................11
Instant Capacity Summary.......................................................................................................11
Terminology......................................................................................................................12
Overview..............................................................................................................................12
Software Product Overview.................................................................................................12
System Overview...............................................................................................................12
Instant Capacity System Hardware..................................................................................13
Instant Capacity Software...............................................................................................13
Utility Pricing Solutions Portal..........................................................................................14
Instant Capacity Administration System............................................................................14
Instant Capacity Database.............................................................................................14
Other System Management Commands...........................................................................14
Most Recent Instant Capacity Product Versions and Supported Platforms....................................15
Past Versions and Supported Operating Systems....................................................................16
2 Getting Started........................................................................................19
Instant Capacity Requirements..................................................................................................19
Program Requirements........................................................................................................19
Software Requirements.......................................................................................................19
HP-UX 11i v1 Requirements and Dependent Products..........................................................20
Required Patches for HP-UX 11i v1...................................................................................20
HP-UX 11i v2 Requirements and Dependent Products..........................................................21
Required Patches for HP-UX 11i v2...................................................................................21
HP-UX 11i v3 Requirements and Dependent Products..........................................................21
Required Patches for HP-UX 11i v3...................................................................................22
OpenVMS Version 8.4 Requirements...............................................................................22
Network Requirements........................................................................................................22
Email Requirements............................................................................................................22
System Contact Requirement................................................................................................23
Usage Rights Requirement...................................................................................................23
Instant Capacity Integration with Virtual Partitions (HP-UX).......................................................23
Instant Capacity Components...................................................................................................24
Overview..........................................................................................................................24
Processors and Cores.........................................................................................................24
Cell Boards and Memory....................................................................................................24
Global Instant Capacity...........................................................................................................25
Instant Capacity Codewords....................................................................................................25
Temporary Instant Capacity.....................................................................................................26
Instant Capacity Compliance and Enforcement...........................................................................27
Configuration Change Notification...........................................................................................27
Core Activation......................................................................................................................28
Increasing Processing Capacity by Purchasing RTUs................................................................28
Instant Capacity Cell Board.....................................................................................................29
Instant Capacity Software Validation.........................................................................................29
On HP-UX Systems.............................................................................................................29
On OpenVMS Systems.......................................................................................................30
Status Reporting on Instant Capacity Systems..............................................................................30
Time Zone Considerations........................................................................................................30
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