Glossary
PPU Terminology
pay per use
The HP On Demand Solutions product that has a pricing model in which you are charged for actual processor usage. You acquire a specific hardware platform, and number of processors, and are charged for the actual usage, based on the percent utilization of the processors.
portal
A HP web site that gives customers an interface to view their PPU system/partition utilization information. See “PPU Web Portal” on page 36 for details.
usage database
The HP repository that contains PPU system/partition utilization information. You can access this information through the PPU web portal.
utility meter
The software and hardware device that receives PPU system/partition utilization information from the PPU software. The utility meter is initially installed and configured by a HP service representative.
virtual partition
A software partitioning of a computer or hard partition where each virtual partition contains an instance of an operating system. Though a hard partition can contain multiple virtual partitions, the inverse is not true (that is, a virtual partition cannot span hard partition boundaries).
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