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

6 iCAP cell board.......................................................................................62
iCAP cell board......................................................................................................................62
Overview..........................................................................................................................62
Ordering iCAP cell board........................................................................................................63
HP-UX and OpenVMS license and support.................................................................................63
Acquiring usage rights for iCAP cell board................................................................................63
iCAP cell board and considerations of core usage rights..............................................................64
Activation of an iCAP cell board...............................................................................................65
Accidental activation of an iCAP cell board...............................................................................65
iCAP cell board activation exception error.................................................................................66
iCAP cell board and TiCAP......................................................................................................66
7 GiCAP....................................................................................................67
GiCAP overview.....................................................................................................................67
GiCAP requirements...............................................................................................................68
GiCAP Group Managers.........................................................................................................69
Standby Group Managers..................................................................................................69
GiCAP grouping rules.............................................................................................................70
GiCAP sharing rights..............................................................................................................70
GiCAP group creation.............................................................................................................71
GiCAP resource sharing..........................................................................................................73
Effect of temporary capacity................................................................................................74
Status reporting.................................................................................................................75
GiCAP and temporary capacity................................................................................................76
Temporary capacity and freed usage rights...........................................................................76
Temporary capacity and status reporting...............................................................................77
Temporary capacity prefetch...............................................................................................77
Removing a GiCAP group member...........................................................................................77
Reinstalling a group member....................................................................................................77
Group Manager availability (no standby manager).....................................................................78
Group Manager failover considerations.....................................................................................78
Upgrades and GiCAP.............................................................................................................79
Adding new partitions........................................................................................................79
Rights seizure.........................................................................................................................79
When to migrate usage rights and when to seize usage rights.................................................80
Effects of rights seizure........................................................................................................80
Scavenging seized rights to member.....................................................................................81
Down partitions with powered-on cells..................................................................................82
TiCAP and rights seizure.....................................................................................................82
Other considerations..........................................................................................................82
Additional HA solutions......................................................................................................83
Summary of rights seizure...................................................................................................83
Considerations for multiple groups............................................................................................84
Additional considerations........................................................................................................85
8 Using iCAP on HP Integrity Superdome 2....................................................87
HP Integrity Superdome 2 .......................................................................................................87
Overview..........................................................................................................................87
iCAP: From compliance check paradigm to self enforcement...............................................87
Important considerations.....................................................................................................88
Sizing partitions............................................................................................................88
Resizing partitions.........................................................................................................88
Memory iCAP...............................................................................................................88
Installing iCAP on HP Integrity Superdome 2.........................................................................89
iCAP commands................................................................................................................89
Checking the status of your iCAP system...........................................................................89
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