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 June 2007 update release.

HP Instant Capacity

The HP Instant Capacity (iCAP) version B.11.23.08.01.01 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.11.23.08.01.01 to include the following new features and changes:

update to the required version of nPartition Provider
defect fix to the icapmanage -x command
modifications to the installation procedure
full implementation of Global Instant Capacity (GiCAP)
changes to GiCAP grouping rules and icapstatus command output
incorporate 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).

For information about changes to nPartition Provider, see “nPartition Provider”.

Impact

There are no impacts other than those previously listed.

Compatibility

There are no known compatibility issues.

Performance

There are no known performance issues.

Documentation

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 Web site: http://docs.hp.com (navigate to Network and Systems Management, then to Utility Pricing Solutions).

Obsolescence

Not applicable.