HP Instant Capacity (iCAP) manual Using Instant Capacity to Manage Processing Capacity

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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