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

3 Installing and Removing Instant Capacity Software........................................33
Installing Instant Capacity Software...........................................................................................33
Installing from the HP-UX Media (HP-UX 11i v1, 11i v2, and 11i v3):..........................................33
Installing from the HP Software Depot (For HP-UX 11i v1, 11i v2, and 11i v3):.............................34
For All HP-UX Installations...................................................................................................34
Installing Instant Capacity on OpenVMS Systems...................................................................34
Reinstalling Instant Capacity Software.......................................................................................35
Preserving current Instant Capacity information......................................................................35
Removing Instant Capacity Software..........................................................................................35
4 Using Instant Capacity to Manage Processing Capacity................................37
Checking the Status of your Instant Capacity System....................................................................37
Setting System Contact Information............................................................................................39
Applying a Right To Use (RTU) Codeword..................................................................................40
Activating Cores.....................................................................................................................41
Example Core Activation Session.........................................................................................42
Deactivating Cores.................................................................................................................43
Example Deactivation Session for Hardware-Partitionable Systems............................................43
Overriding Deferred Activation and Deactivation........................................................................44
Load-Balancing Active Cores....................................................................................................45
Understanding and Managing Intended Active Values.................................................................46
Activations and Deactivations in a Virtual Partition Environment....................................................46
When to Use the vparmodify or icapmodify Commands.........................................................47
What is Unused Capacity...................................................................................................47
Static Virtual Partitions........................................................................................................47
Activating Cores in a Virtual Partition Environment..................................................................47
Deactivating Cores in a Virtual Partition Environment..............................................................48
Boot Time Compliance.......................................................................................................48
Assigning a Cell to a Partition..................................................................................................49
Unassigning a Cell from a Partition...........................................................................................50
Software Application Considerations.........................................................................................51
Test Activation of Cores Using Temporary Capacity.....................................................................51
Replacement of Failed Cores....................................................................................................52
HP-UX LPMC and HPMC.....................................................................................................52
LPMC Deactivations in Virtual Partitions.................................................................................52
Failed Monarch Processors (HP-UX)......................................................................................52
Replacement of Failed Cores on OpenVMS...........................................................................53
Failed OpenVMS Primary Processors....................................................................................53
5 Temporary Instant Capacity.......................................................................55
Temporary Instant Capacity Overview.......................................................................................55
Ordering Temporary Instant Capacity........................................................................................56
HP-UX Licensing and Support with Temporary Instant Capacity.................................................56
OpenVMS Licensing and Support with Temporary Instant Capacity..........................................57
Using Temporary Instant Capacity.............................................................................................57
Acquiring and Configuring Temporary Instant Capacity..........................................................57
Using Temporary Instant Capacity........................................................................................57
Temporary Capacity and Virtual Partitions.................................................................................58
Tracking Usage of Temporary Instant Capacity...........................................................................59
Temporary Instant Capacity Warning Period..............................................................................60
Temporary Instant Capacity Expiration and Compliance Enforcement............................................61
Temporary Instant Capacity Exceptions......................................................................................61
Error for Activation with Insufficient Temporary Capacity..........................................................61
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