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HP Instant Capacity User's Guide for Versions 8.x > Chapter 1 Instant Capacity Overview
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The Instant Capacity versions 8.x software products associated with HP’s Utility Pricing Solutions program are:
Only versions 8.x information is in this user’s guide. Instant Capacity must be run on a partitionable system. In an HPVM environment, Instant Capacity software provides meaningful functionality only on the VM Host system; it does not run on a virtual machine (also known as a “guest”). The Instant Capacity product has been available on HP-UX since March 2000 (version B.01.00). The HP-UX versions 8.x software can be obtained from the following HP web site (search for “Instant Capacity”): http://www.hp.com/go/softwaredepot Instant Capacity versions 8.x consist of the following main elements and influences:
See Chapter 2: “Getting Started” for detailed information on Instant Capacity concepts and methods. An Instant Capacity system’s hardware is made up of the following components: Every Instant Capacity system contains a combination of the above components that are either purchased with usage rights (and available for activation) or purchased without usage rights (must be inactive). Note that while you purchase processors, the Instant Capacity software monitors and manages cores. The Instant Capacity software provides the means to:
See “Instant Capacity HP-UX Manpages” for details of these commands on HP-UX. See “DCL Commands” for the OpenVMS equivalents of these commands. The Utility Pricing Solutions (or Instant Capacity) portal is located at the HP web site: http://www.hp.com/go/icap/portal After a component without usage rights is purchased, HP sends you a letter containing instructions on how to obtain a Right to Use (RTU) codeword from the Utility Pricing Solutions portal. If asset reporting is configured, the icapd daemon sends asset reports, as encrypted e-mail messages, to the Instant Capacity Administration System, which saves information in the Instant Capacity database. Table 1-1 Most Recent Instant Capacity Versions and Supported Platforms
Previous versions of the Instant Capacity software are:
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