Utility Pricing Solutions

The HP Instant Capacity (iCAP) and HP Pay per use (PPU) software products are a part of the HP Utility Pricing Solutions program. iCAP is a purchase model in which capacity can be instantly increased to accommodate increasing demands. PPU is a lease model in which customers are charged only for actual processor usage.

PPU is unchanged for the December 2007 update release.

HP Instant Capacity

The HP Instant Capacity (iCAP) version B.11.23.08.03.00 software (product number B9073BA) provides the ability to instantly increase or decrease processing capacity on specified HP Enterprise servers.

Summary of Change

iCAP version B.11.23.08.03.00 includes the following new features and changes:
- Support for vPars version A.03.05 integration on HP-UX 11.11 systems allows users to manage 11.11 and 11.23 vPars with the same vparmonitor.
- The format of the date displayed by the icapstatus command has been changed to facilitate translation. Also, the format of the iCAP version number has been changed to provide more information.
- Several defect fixes have been incorporated
iCAP version B.11.23.08.02.01 includes the following new features and changes:
- GiCAP Disaster Recovery
- Several defect fixes have been incorporated
iCAP version B.11.23.08.02.00 includes the following new features and changes:
- Improvements in GiCAP logging.
- Changes in asset reporting; it is now turned off by default on new installations
- Changes to TiCAP transfer and consumption.
- A negative TiCAP balance is no longer cleared when applying an RTU codeword.
- Changes to icapstatus command output.
- Changes to the GiCAP database.
- Several defect fixes have been incorporated.

For further information, see the HP Instant Capacity (iCAP) Release Notes at http://docs.hp.com (navigate to Network and Systems Management, then to Utility Pricing Solutions).

Impact

GiCAP Disaster Recovery allows customers to transfer usage rights to other group members when a member is unavailable. The Group Manager must be running iCAP version 8.02.01 or later, and all group members must run version iCAP 8.02 or later to use this feature.

iCAP version 8.02 GiCAP Group Managers store more information about the members of a group. This information must be fetched from the various group members when converting an earlier version of the GiCAP database to the current version. This information cannot be fetched if all hosts of a GiCAP Group member cannot be contacted. Therefore, HP recommends updating a GiCAP Group Manager system to iCAP version 8.02 or later only when every GiCAP Group Member has at least one host which can be contacted by the GiCAP Group Manager.

Compatibility

There are no known compatibility issues.

Performance

There are no known performance issues.

Documentation

For further information, see the following:

Manpages:
- icap(5)
- icapmanage(1M)
- icapmodify(1M)
- icapnotify(1M)
- icapstatus(1M)
Web Sites:
- HP Software Depot: http://hp.com/go/softwaredepot
- Technical Documentation: http://docs.hp.com
Documents:
- For details on the HP Instant Capacity software product, see the Instant Capacity User's Guide and Release Notes located on the HP Technical Documentation web site http://docs.hp.com (navigate to Network and Systems Management, then to Utility Pricing Solutions).

Obsolescence

Not applicable.