Special Considerations

Instant Capacity Integration with Virtual Partitions

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Instant Capacity Integration with Virtual Partitions

Overview

In a virtual partition environment, processors that are not assigned to any virtual partition are considered inactive (in addition to other classes of inactive processors). Activations and deactivations of processors are accomplished by adding and removing dynamic (unbound) processors to/from a virtual partition.

Unassigned processors can be assigned or deassigned using either the icod_modify command or the vparmodify command, depending on the version of vPars being used, the type of adjustment needed, and the level of logging or reporting desired. For example, assignment via the vparmodify command does not result in logging of the activation, e-mail configuration change notification, or transmission of an asset report to HP.

Deferred activations and deactivations are not supported in any vPar environment.

The Instant Capacity B.07.x software interacts with virtual partitions (vPars) software to varying degrees depending on the version of vPars that is being used.

For HP-UX 11i v2 systems, the required version of vPars software is A.04.01 or greater. That version, combined with Instant Capacity, is referred to as the “integrated virtual partition environment”, since it allows for the best coordination between Instant Capacity software and vPars software, making it less likely for a complex to be misconfigured or out of licensing compliance.

For HP-UX 11i v1 systems, the required version of vPars software is A.02.03 or greater, but version A.04 is not available for that platform. When A.02 or A.03 versions of vPars are used (on HP-UX 11i v1), the combination is referred to as a “compatible virtual partition

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