Temporary Instant Capacity for Unlicensed Processors

Using Temporary Instant Capacity

Step 4. Optional: if you wish to view temporary capacity balances on the portal, configure your partition for e-mail connectivity to HP. See “Configuring E-Mail on Instant Capacity Systems” on page 143 for details.

Utilizing Temporary Instant Capacity

Auditing of temporary capacity is done at the complex level on Instant Capacity systems that support partitioning. While temporary capacity may have been purchased for use by a specific partition, it is available for use on all partitions in the system.

To use temporary capacity in a system that contains Instant Capacity processors, and has had the temporary capacity RTU codeword applied, follow this procedure:

To activate one or more processors in an nPartition, and allow them to use temporary capacity, use the icod_modify -t-a<number> command/options.

In the following activation example, two processors are currently active in the partition. You desire to activate a third processor, but there is no licensed processor available for activation. Because temporary capacity is available on the system, you can activate a third processor with it.

Example 5-2 Activating an Instant Capacity Processor with Temporary Capacity

/usr/sbin/icod_modify -t -a 1

3 processors are now active, and 3 processors are specified to be active after the next reboot.

NOTE

Temporary capacity cannot be used to activate Instant Capacity

 

processors in inactive Instant Capacity cell boards. An RTU must be

 

purchased for the cell board.

 

When you want to decrease or stop using temporary capacity, you

 

 

deactivate the appropriate number of processors. Note: you do not use

 

the “-t” option when deactivating processors. Temporary capacity will no

 

longer be used when the number of active processors is equal to the

 

number of licensed processors.

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