Instant Capacity Compliance and Enforcement

The Instant Capacity software maintains complex-wide information about the licensing and activation of system components. The software monitors the number of unlicensed and licensed components for the entire complex.

The Instant Capacity software authorizes activation at will of processors, cells, and memory if allowed by the system license counts. You will not be allowed to activate additional components if that action would take the system out of compliance.

For example, if your Instant Capacity contract specifies that your system contains 12 licensed processors and 4 unlicensed processors, you may have up to 12 processors activated at any one time, and 4 processors must be inactive at all times.

The Instant Capacity software can determine the following compliance aspects:

Whether a system is in compliance or out of compliance with the Instant Capacity contract
The number of additional licensed processors that can be activated
The number of additional licensed cells and the quantity of memory that can be activated

The enforcement methods used by the software include:

Not allowing activations which cause the system to be out of compliance
Deactivating processors on boot
- Automatic deactivation of processors at boot time if temporary capacity has been exceeded and unlicensed processors continue to be used (see “Temporary Instant Capacity Expiration and License Enforcement”)
- In an integrated virtual partition environment, preventing a virtual partition from booting if the number of assigned processors is greater than the number of intended active processors for the nPartition (see “Boot Time Compliance”)

Instant Capacity Compliance and Enforcement

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