Temporary Instant Capacity for Unlicensed Processors

Temporary Instant Capacity Overview

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Temporary Instant Capacity Overview

You can purchase an amount of temporary capacity (TiCAP) time for currently unlicensed (and inactive) processors in your Instant Capacity system. Temporary capacity can be purchased in units of multiple processor-days. Temporary capacity allows one or more inactive processors to be activated for up to the specified period of pre-paid processor minutes, without requiring permanent license(s) for the processor(s).

You can activate and deactivate inactive processors as you wish until the elapsed activation time equals your prepaid temporary capacity duration. For example, with a prepaid duration of 30 processor-days of temporary capacity, you can activate one processor for 30 days or four processors for one hour a day for 180 days (or any combination that totals 43,200 processor-minutes).

Temporary capacity activations are persistent. That is, activations using temporary capacity survive in a partition that is rebooted. You must deactivate processors to stop consumption of temporary capacity. The processors deactivated need not be on the same partition as those you activated to start consuming temporary capacity.

Temporary capacity credits are not transferable from one system to another. They may be used on any partition in the system for which they were purchased.

If temporary capacity is depleted and you continue to have more active processors than licensed processors across the complex, on the next reboot of any partition in the complex the software will automatically deactivate one or more unlicensed processors in order to bring the system into a state closer to licensing compliance. The Instant Capacity software will deactivate as many processors as is necessary to either stop consumption of temporary capacity or to bring the partition to the minimum number of required active processors.

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