Summary

Instant Capacity fulfills a vital role in HP's Virtual Server Environment. Instant Capacity eases the process of planning for new workloads by allowing a system to be purchased over time as computing requirements increase.

After purchasing a right-to-use license for Instant Capacity hardware resources, an Instant Capacity codeword is applied to the system. Instant Capacity codewords can contain licenses for cells, CPUs, and memory. After a codeword has been applied, the resources can be instantly activated. The use of Instant Capacity provides a powerful level of flexibility by allowing CPUs to be deactivated in one nPartition and activated in another. Thus, a workload can have both hardware isolation and dynamic CPU migration capabilities. All of these features ease the planning and purchasing of new hardware.