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
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
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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