HP Instant Capacity User's Guide for versions B.07.x

Glossary
Instant Capacity Terminology
Appendix B 155
deactivated processor
A processor that either has not yet been activated or
that has been turned off by the Instant Capacity
software and returned to the pool of inactive
processors. These processors are available for
activation.
Note that new HP-UX processes are not assigned to a
deactivated processor and all processes running on the
deactivated processor are migrated to other processors
(with the exception that interrupt handlers may not be
migrated from deactivated processors).
deconfigured processor
A processor that has not yet been configured at the boot
console handler (BCH). The Instant Capacity software
cannot activate a processor that is deconfigured.
hard partition
A physical partition of a HP server, comprising a group
of cells (containing processors and memory), and I/O
chassis. Each hard partition operates independently of
other hard partitions, and can run a single instance of
HP-UX or some other operating system. A hard
partition can be further divided into virtual partitions.
Hard partitions are also referred to as “nPartitions”.
iCOD component
See Instant Capacity component.
iCOD processor
See Instant Capacity processor.
inactive cell
On a hardware-partitionable system, a cell that is
either powered off, or in a state prior to BCH, defined
as “waiting on SINC_BIB”.