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” 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” 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.

	NOTE: 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.

Cell Boards

Instant Capacity offers you a way to have additional (inactive) cell board capacity in your system for growing business needs. When the need arises, these cell boards, which contain memory and processors, are available for instant activation and use after purchasing a license from HP and applying a RTU codeword.

The cell board, memory, and processors are each licensed separately. To activate an Instant Capacity cell, you must have an Instant Capacity cell license as well as sufficient memory license to enable all memory attached to the cell.

Depending on the need, you may want to license one or more processors at the same time the cell and memory are licensed. After a cell board is activated, all of the licensed processors on the cell board are available for activation if the system has available CPU licenses.

See Chapter 6 “Cell Board Instant Capacity” for more information.

	IMPORTANT: You must have one active processor for each active cell board.

Memory

Memory is contained in a cell board. The entire amount of memory on an Instant Capacity cell board is available for use after the memory RTU codeword is applied and the memory is licensed.

An Instant Capacity cell board must be licensed and activated before its memory can be used, and you cannot activate a cell board without activating all attached memory.