HP Instant Capacity Version 10.x User Guide (762794-001, March 2014)

Installing from the HP-UX media (HP-UX 11i v1, 11i v2, and 11i v3):..........................................32
Installing from the HP software depot (For HP-UX 11i v1, 11i v2, and 11i v3):..............................33
For all HP-UX installations....................................................................................................33
Installing iCAP on OpenVMS systems...................................................................................33
Reinstalling iCAP software.......................................................................................................34
Preserving current iCAP information......................................................................................34
Removing iCAP software..........................................................................................................34
4 Using iCAP to manage processing capacity.................................................35
Checking the status of your iCAP system....................................................................................35
Setting system contact information.............................................................................................37
Applying a Right To Use (RTU) codeword...................................................................................38
Activating cores......................................................................................................................39
Example core activation session...........................................................................................40
Deactivating cores..................................................................................................................41
Example deactivation session for hardware-partitionable systems..............................................41
Overriding deferred activation and deactivation.........................................................................42
Load-balancing active cores.....................................................................................................43
Understanding and managing intended active values..................................................................44
Activations and deactivations in a virtual partition environment.....................................................44
When to use the vparmodify or icapmodify commands...........................................................45
What is unused capacity....................................................................................................45
Static virtual partitions........................................................................................................45
Activating cores in a virtual partition environment...................................................................45
Deactivating cores in a virtual partition environment...............................................................46
Boot time compliance.........................................................................................................46
Assigning a cell to a partition..................................................................................................47
Unassigning a cell from a partition...........................................................................................48
Balancing the distribution of I/O interrupts.................................................................................49
Software application considerations..........................................................................................49
Test activation of cores using temporary capacity........................................................................50
Replacement of failed cores.....................................................................................................50
HP-UX LPMC and HPMC.....................................................................................................50
LPMC deactivations in vPars................................................................................................51
Failed monarch processors (HP-UX).......................................................................................51
Replacement of failed cores on OpenVMS............................................................................51
Failed OpenVMS primary processors...................................................................................51
5 TiCAP.....................................................................................................52
TiCAP overview......................................................................................................................52
Ordering TiCAP.....................................................................................................................53
HP-UX licensing and support with TiCAP...............................................................................53
OpenVMS licensing and support with TiCAP.........................................................................54
Using TiCAP..........................................................................................................................54
Acquiring and configuring TiCAP.........................................................................................54
Using TiCAP......................................................................................................................54
TiCAP and vPars.....................................................................................................................55
Tracking usage of TiCAP..........................................................................................................56
TiCAP warning period.............................................................................................................57
TiCAP expiration and compliance enforcement...........................................................................58
TiCAP exceptions....................................................................................................................58
Error for activation with insufficient TiCAP..............................................................................58
Temporary capacity balance needing action.........................................................................58
Temporary capacity negative balance..................................................................................59
Temporary capacity enforcement..........................................................................................59
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