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

Manager. Applying this codeword on a system running iCAP enables the creation of a GiCAP
group with members.
Figure 16illustrates the process of configuring and using GiCAP.
Figure 16 Using GiCAP
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
GiCAP requirements
To use GiCAP, the Group Manager and all partitions on all servers in the group must be running
iCAP 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 to use GiCAP. The CIM Server configuration property sslClientVerificationMode must be
set to a value of “optional” and enableHttpsConnection must be set to “true” 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
to the Group Manager system. GiCAP sharing rights are described in “GiCAP sharing rights”
(page 70).
For a complete list of all software requirements, see “iCAP requirements” (page 20).
68 GiCAP