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

2 Getting Started
This chapter covers the following topics:
• “Instant Capacity Requirements” (page 19)
• “Instant Capacity Components” (page 24)
• “Global Instant Capacity” (page 25)
• “Instant Capacity Codewords” (page 25)
• “Temporary Instant Capacity” (page 26)
• “Instant Capacity Compliance and Enforcement” (page 27)
• “Configuration Change Notification” (page 27)
• “Core Activation” (page 28)
• “Instant Capacity Cell Board” (page 29)
• “Instant Capacity Software Validation” (page 29)
• “Status Reporting on Instant Capacity Systems” (page 30)
• “Time Zone Considerations” (page 30)
For more in-depth information, see icap(5).
Instant Capacity Requirements
Program Requirements
To participate in the Instant Capacity version 10.x program, you must comply with the following
conditions of the HP Utility Pricing Solutions program:
• Maintain the HP Instant Capacity software on each HP-UX or OpenVMS partition in the system.
The Instant Capacity software is a nonintrusive, low-overhead software module that resides
on the partition.
• Migrate to later Instant Capacity software versions as they become available.
For specifics about your individual program requirements, see the Utility Pricing Solutions contract
from HP or your authorized channel partner.
IMPORTANT: Participants in the Utility Pricing Solutions program who do not meet these
requirements may be in breach of contract. This can result in unnecessary expense for both the
program participant and HP.
Software Requirements
Every HP-UX and OpenVMS partition in an Instant Capacity system is required to have the Instant
Capacity software installed and the icapd daemon running (on HP-UX systems), or the ICAP_SERVER
process running (on OpenVMS systems). You must maintain the Instant Capacity software until all
program requirements are fulfilled and until the system is no longer considered an Instant Capacity
system. If you are using GiCAP, all systems must be running Instant Capacity version 9.x.
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