Pay Per Use

Pay Per Use (PPU) version 6.0 is a lease model that provides customers the ability to pay only for the percent utilization of processors in specified HP servers.

Summary of Change

Version 6.0 of the PPU product is supported in HP-UX 11i v2 on Itanium-based hardware platforms.

Impact

PPU 6.0 is compatible with HP-UX 11i v2 and Itanium-based servers.

Machines Affected

The PPU 6.0 is supported on these servers:

HP Integrity Superdome

HP Integrity rx7620 and rx8620

Compatibility

There are no compatibility issues.

Performance

There are no performance issues

Documentation

The following PPU manpages have been changed:

ppud(1M)
ppuconfig(1M)

For further information, see the PPU Web page at http://www.hp.com/hpfinancialservices/pay_per_use.html.

The following documents can be found at http://docs.hp.com:

Pay Per Use (PPU) User's Guide for version B.06.00
Pay Per Use (PPU) Release Notes for version B.06.00

Obsolescence

Not applicable.