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

Temporary Capacity Balance Needing Action.......................................................................61
Temporary Capacity Negative Balance.................................................................................62
Temporary Capacity Enforcement.........................................................................................62
6 Instant Capacity Cell Board.......................................................................65
Instant Capacity Cell Board.....................................................................................................65
Overview..........................................................................................................................65
Ordering Instant Capacity Cell Board........................................................................................66
HP-UX and OpenVMS License and Support................................................................................66
Acquiring Usage Rights for Instant Capacity Cell Board...............................................................66
Instant Capacity Cell Board and Considerations of Core Usage Rights...........................................67
Activation of an Instant Capacity Cell Board..............................................................................68
Accidental Activation of an Instant Capacity Cell Board...............................................................68
Instant Capacity Cell Board Activation Exception Error.................................................................69
Instant Capacity Cell Board and Temporary Instant Capacity........................................................69
7 Global Instant Capacity............................................................................71
Global Instant Capacity Overview............................................................................................71
Global Instant Capacity Requirements.......................................................................................72
Global Instant Capacity Group Managers.................................................................................73
Standby Group Managers..................................................................................................73
Global Instant Capacity Grouping Rules....................................................................................74
Global Instant Capacity Sharing Rights......................................................................................74
Creating Global Instant Capacity Groups..................................................................................75
Global Instant Capacity Resource Sharing.................................................................................77
Effect of Temporary Capacity...............................................................................................78
Status Reporting.................................................................................................................79
Global Instant Capacity and Temporary Capacity.......................................................................80
Temporary Capacity and Freed Usage Rights........................................................................80
Temporary Capacity and Status Reporting.............................................................................81
Temporary Capacity Prefetch...............................................................................................81
Removing a Global Instant Capacity Group Member...................................................................81
Reinstalling a Group Member...................................................................................................82
Group Manager Availability (No Standby Manager)..................................................................82
Group Manager Failover Considerations...................................................................................82
Upgrades and Global Instant Capacity.....................................................................................83
Adding New Partitions.......................................................................................................83
Rights Seizure........................................................................................................................83
When to Migrate Usage Rights and When to Seize Usage Rights.............................................84
Effects of Rights Seizure......................................................................................................84
Down Partitions with Powered-On Cells.................................................................................85
Temporary Capacity and Rights Seizure................................................................................85
Other Considerations.........................................................................................................85
Additional HA Solutions......................................................................................................86
Summary of Rights Seizure..................................................................................................86
Considerations for Multiple Groups...........................................................................................87
Additional Considerations........................................................................................................88
8 Using Instant Capacity on HP Integrity Superdome 2.....................................89
Overview..............................................................................................................................89
iCAP: From compliance check paradigm to self enforcement....................................................89
Important Considerations.........................................................................................................90
Sizing Partitions.................................................................................................................90
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