HP Instant Capacity (iCAP) manual Temporary Instant Capacity

Instant Capacity Compliance and Enforcement	38
Configuration Change Notification	39
Core Activation	40
Increasing Processing Capacity by Purchasing RTUs	40
Instant Capacity Cell Board	41
Instant Capacity Software Validation	42
On HP-UX Systems	42
On OpenVMS Systems	42
Status Reporting on Instant Capacity Systems	43
Time Zone Considerations	44
3 Installing and Removing Instant Capacity Software	45
Installing Instant Capacity Software	46
Installing from the HP-UX Media (HP-UX 11i v1, 11i v2, and 11i v3):	46
Installing from the HP Software Depot (For HP-UX 11i v1, 11i v2, and 11i v3):	47
For All HP-UX Installations	47
Installing Instant Capacity on OpenVMS Systems	47
Reinstalling Instant Capacity Software	48
Preserving current Instant Capacity information	48
Removing Instant Capacity Software	49
4 Using Instant Capacity to Manage Processing Capacity	51
Checking the Status of your Instant Capacity System	52
Setting System Contact Information	54
Applying a Right To Use (RTU) Codeword	55
Activating Cores	57
Example Core Activation Session	58
Deactivating Cores	59
Example Deactivation Session for Hardware-Partitionable Systems	59
Overriding Deferred Activation and Deactivation	61
Load-Balancing Active Cores	62
Understanding and Managing Intended Active Values	63
Activations and Deactivations in a Virtual Partition Environment	64
When to Use the vparmodify or icapmodify Commands	64
What is Unused Capacity	64
Static Virtual Partitions	64
Activating Cores in a Virtual Partition Environment	65
Deactivating Cores in a Virtual Partition Environment	65
Boot Time Compliance	66
Assigning a Cell to a Partition	67
Unassigning a Cell from a Partition	69
Software Application Considerations	71
Test Activation of Cores Using Temporary Capacity	72
Replacement of Failed Cores	73
HP-UX LPMC and HPMC	73
LPMC Deactivations in Virtual Partitions	73
Failed Monarch Processors (HP-UX)	73
Replacement of Failed Cores on OpenVMS	73
Failed OpenVMS Primary Processors	73
5 Temporary Instant Capacity	75
Temporary Instant Capacity Overview	76
Ordering Temporary Instant Capacity	78

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