HP Instant Capacity (iCAP) manual TiCAP

sharing rights	A type of codeword applied to a Group Manager to enable the addition of members with Instant
	Capacity components to groups. To share resources across groups, you must purchase GiCAP
	sharing rights, acquire the GiCAP codeword from the HP Utility Pricing Solutions Portal (http://
	www.hp.com/go/icap/portal), and apply the associated codeword to the Group Manager system.
	You purchase at least as many GiCAP sharing rights as the total number of cores without usage
	rights across all the potential group members. Members can be added to a GiCAP group as
	long as there are sufficient sharing rights available and as long as the grouping rules indicate
	hardware compatibility.
	See also codeword.
shutdown for	The process of shutting down an nPartition in such a way that all active cells in the nPartition
reconfiguration	are reset with the boot-is-blocked (BIB) attribute. When the operating system that is running on
	the nPartition has finished shutting down, these cells begin their power-on self-test sequence
	and then wait for BIB to be cleared by the Service Processor. As a result, the nPartition becomes
	inactive.
	On the HP-UX operating system, shutdown for reconfiguration is performed using the shutdown
	or reboot commands with the -Rand -H(or -RH) options.
	See also reboot for reconfiguration.
system	A server, nPartition, virtual partition, or virtual machine that is running an instance of an operating
	system.
Temporary	An HP product that enables customers to purchase prepaid core activation usage rights, for a
Instant Capacity	specified (temporary) period of time. Temporary capacity is sold in 30 processing-day increments.
	Temporary capacity was formerly known as Temporary Instant Capacity on Demand, or TiCOD.
TiCAP	See Temporary Instant Capacity.
TiCOD	See Temporary Instant Capacity.
unused capacity	The difference between actual active and intended active cores. Unused capacity can be a side
	effect of using the vparmodify command to deactivate cores without immediately activating
	the cores somewhere else. This is usually a transient state because a user typically migrates
	cores from one virtual partition to another with a deactivate command followed by an activate
	command. However, unused capacity can persist if, for example, a utility such as gWLM ignores
	an error status from an activation and leaves the previously deactivated cores in an unassigned
	state. The Instant Capacity software always takes unused capacity into account when a request
	is made to activate or deactivate cores and attempts to eliminate the discrepancy between
	intended active and actual active.
usage rights	Usage rights are used by Instant Capacity to activate system components (memory, cell boards,
	and cores), and are freed by deactivating components. Usage rights for a complex are adjusted
	by the application of a Right to Use (RTU) codeword, and they can be shared between systems
	through the use of Global Instant Capacity.
	See also RTU.
use-on-next-boot	A per-cellflag in the Partition Configuration Data. This flag is used by system firmware during
	the process of booting an nPartition. If a cell is assigned to an nPartition and this flag is not set,
	then the cell is not activated the next time the nPartition is booted.
Utility Pricing	An HP website (http://www.hp.com/go/icap/portal) that gives customers an interface to obtain
Solutions Portal	codewords for Instant Capacity systems, view asset reports, view Pay per use system-utilization
	information and to check other information related to their Utility Pricing Solutions accounts.
virtual machine	A software entity provided by HP Integrity Virtual Machines, VMware ESX, or Microsoft Virtual
	Server. This technology allows a single server or (with Integrity Virtual Machines) nPartition
	to act as a VM Host for multiple individual virtual machines, each running its own instance of
	an operating system (referred to as a guest OS). Virtual machines are servers in the HP Virtual
	Server Environment (VSE).
virtual partition	A software partition of a server, or of a single nPartition, where each virtual partition can run
	its own instance of an operating system. A virtual partition cannot span an nPartition boundary.
	See also nPartition, virtual machine.
VM	See virtual machine.

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