HP OpenVMS Alpha Version 8.3 and HP OpenVMS Version
•Hardware services are included for the cores acti- vated by the TiCAP license.
•The relevant operating environment (OE) is automat- ically licensed on activated TiCAP cores.
Note: Other HP and
Pay per use
Pay per use (PPU) is a leasing program with HP Finance which customers pay only for CPU computing capacity they use.
Key features:
•Runs on all Integrity
•The customer pays a fixed, minimum monthly lease and a variable monthly amount that is based on ac- tual usage of CPUs.
•The customer is guaranteed that, for any given month, the PPU charge will not exceed 105% of the standard lease cost.
•The customer is guaranteed that over the full term of the
•There are two types of PPU:
1.Actual percentage of utilization of each CPU (also called Percent CPU)
2.A count of the number of active CPUs (also called Active CPU)
•Percent CPU and Active CPU are mutually exclusive on any single Integrity system.
•The full corporate implementation allows OpenVMS to share PPU CPUs with
Process Description:
•A PPU Metering Agent running on a target system continuously measures CPU resource utilization on every installed CPU.
•This utilization data is sent to a Utility Meter running on an HP ProLiant system that can support up to 99 individual PPU systems.
•This system securely communicates with the HP Util- ity Pricing web portal every 24 hours, sending col- lated utilization information about each PPU system.
•The customer can access the Utility Pricing Portanl 48 hours later through a secure connection, and ac- cess usage statistics for that 24 hour period for each system or hard partition.
•This information enables the accurate billing of Busi- ness Units for the actual CPU resources they have consumed.
OPERATING SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT
Processes and Scheduling
Executable images consist of system programs and user programs that have been compiled and linked. These images run in the context of a process on Open- VMS systems.
OpenVMS uses paging and swapping to provide suf- ficient virtual memory for concurrently executing pro- cesses. Paging and swapping is also provided for pro- cesses whose memory requirements exceed available physical memory.
64-Bit Virtual Addressing
The OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS for Integrity servers operating systems provide support for
Very Large Memory (VLM) Features
OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS for Integrity servers provide the following additional memory management VLM features beyond those provided by
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•Fast I/O for global sections
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