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 you are charged only for actual processor usage.




	NOTE: PPU is unchanged for the September 2007 update release.

HP Instant Capacity

The HP Instant Capacity (iCAP) version B.11.31.08.02.00 software (product number B9073BA) provides the ability to instantly increase or decrease processing capacity on specified HP Enterprise servers.

Summary of Change

iCAP has been updated to version B.11.31.08.02.00 to include the following new features and changes:

GiCAP Disaster Recovery
Cell online activate and deactivate
improvements in GiCAP logging and asset reporting
changes to TiCAP transfer and consumption
changes to icapstatus command output
incorporates several defect fixes

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. All group members must run version iCAP 8.02 to use this new feature.

Not all Disaster Recovery features may have been implemented in the iCAP release included with the September 2007 HP-UX media. Please check the latest version of iCAP at the HP Software Depot for the availability of this feature.

Compatibility

There are no known compatibility issues.

Performance

There are no known performance issues.

Documentation

For detailed information, see the following:

Manpages:

icap(5)
icapmanage(1M)
icapmodify(1M)
icapstatus(1M)
icapnotify(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 Web site: http://docs.hp.com (under Network and Systems Management–> Utility Pricing Solutions).

Obsolescence

Not applicable.