Getting Started
Instant Capacity Components
Instant Capacity Components
Overview
The Instant Capacity software monitors and enforces compliance with licensing agreements. It authorizes or denies activation of system components (CPUs, cells, memory) based on a complex-wide license database. See “License Requirement” on page 27 for details on licensing components. Activation of components is restricted according to complex-wide compliance.
To activate an unlicensed component, a license must first be purchased from HP, and a right-to-use (RTU) codeword must be applied to the complex. See “Applying a Right-To-Use (RTU) Codeword” on page 54 for details.
Processors
The Instant Capacity software enforces the number of licensed and unlicensed processors, on a complex-wide basis. That is, the compliance of an Instant Capacity system is determined by comparing the number of inactive processors with the expected number of unlicensed (Instant Capacity) processors for the entire complex, according to the contract with HP. Available processor licenses may be used to activate any processor in an active cell board.
Licensing is system-wide only. If system components are moved from one system to another, the counts of allowable active and inactive components do not change for either system. In particular, this means that the removal of inactive components from a system can cause that system to be out of compliance with the Instant Capacity contract because there are fewer inactive components than the complex-wide count of unlicensed components. Or the system may even become unusable as in the case where enough other processors must be made inactive to meet compliance, but there is no longer at least one active (licensed) processor per configured cell.
