Cell Board Instant Capacity

Overview

Cell Board Instant Capacity offers you a way to have additional (inactive) cell board capacity in your system for growing business needs. When the need arises, cell boards, which contain memory and processors, can be licensed for activation and use.

An Instant Capacity cell board is configured at HP manufacturing already assigned to an nPartition (hard partition) with its use-on-next-boot flag set to “n” (no), so it does not participate in the boot of the nPartition.

After a cell board is licensed, including all of the memory on the cell board and at least one processor (or an available processor license exists in the complex), the cell board is available for activation and participation in the boot of the nPartition. This is controlled by setting the use-on-next-boot flag to “y” (yes) with the parmodify command and rebooting the nPartition.

	NOTE: If a cell board is not fully licensed, the Instant Capacity software prevents it from being configured to participate (become active) in the boot of an nPartition.

Any cell board, whether licensed or not, can be assigned to an nPartition with the use-on-next-boot flag set to “n” (no).

Because an active cell board must have a minimum of one active processor, prior to activation of a cell board, one of the following must be true:

After a cell board has been activated, all of the processors on the cell board are available for licensing and potential activation. Depending on the current number of licensed and unlicensed processors on your system, you may need to license additional processors in order to activate additional processors from the newly activated cell board.

As part of the licensing process, you should submit a purchase order to HP to purchase the cell board, memory, and any processors you wish to activate.

See “Assigning a Cell to a Partition” and “Unassigning a Cell from a Partition” for information on assigning and unassigning a cell board to an nPartition.

	IMPORTANT: An active cell board must have a minimum of one active processor.

Check with your HP sales representative for availability of the Cell Board Instant Capacity product.