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

When you retrieve the codeword, you must provide the sales order number for the codeword
purchase, the serial number of the Group Manager system, and partition information for the Group
Manager. Applying this codeword on a system running Instant Capacity enables the creation of
a GiCAP group with members.
Figure 16illustrates the process of configuring and using Global Instant Capacity.
Figure 16 Using Global Instant Capacity
Create
GiCAP Group
Add Member
Systems to
Group
Apply
Codeword
on Group
Manager
Apply
Grouping Rules
on Group
Manager
Select
Group Manager
System
Acquire
Grouping Rules
from Portal
Deactivate
Components
on System B
Activate
Components
on System A
Customer
Additional Capacity
Needed on System A
Excess Capacity
on System B
Purchase
GiCAP
Sharing Rights
Codeword
Post GiCAP
Order in
iCAP Database
Send
Acknowledgement
Letter
HP
Process
Order for
Codeword
Global Instant Capacity Requirements
To use Global Instant Capacity, the Group Manager and all partitions on all servers in the group
must be running Instant Capacity version 9.0 or later. Every GiCAP group member must be
hardware-compatible with other GiCAP group members as determined by the GiCAP grouping
rules.
WBEM version A.02.05 or higher must be installed on the Group Manager and on all member
systems in order to use GiCAP. The CIM Server configuration property sslClientVerificationMode
must be set to a value of “optional” on all GiCAP Group Managers and on all OS instances of all
member systems. (The CIM Server may need to be restarted if the property was not previously set
to this value.) For details, see cimconfig(1M). Note that communication between the managers
and members of groups is established using SSL certificates that are supplied by the GiCAP software.
To create a GiCAP group with members, you must purchase GiCAP sharing rights, acquire the
GiCAP codeword from the HP Utility Pricing Solutions portal, and apply the associated codeword
72 Global Instant Capacity