4 Using Instant Capacity to Manage Processing Capacity

This chapter covers the following topics:

“Checking the Status of your Instant Capacity System” (page 52)

“Setting System Contact Information” (page 54)

“Applying a Right To Use (RTU) Codeword” (page 55)

“Activating Cores” (page 57)

“Deactivating Cores” (page 59)

“Overriding Deferred Activation and Deactivation” (page 61)

“Load-Balancing Active Cores” (page 62)

“Understanding and Managing Intended Active Values” (page 63)

“Activations and Deactivations in a Virtual Partition Environment” (page 64)

“Assigning a Cell to a Partition” (page 67)

“Unassigning a Cell from a Partition” (page 69)

“Software Application Considerations” (page 71)

“Test Activation of Cores Using Temporary Capacity” (page 72)

“Replacement of Failed Cores” (page 73)

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HP Instant Capacity (iCAP) Using Instant Capacity to Manage Processing Capacity, This chapter covers the following topics