The HP Virtual Server Environment: Making the Adaptive Enterprise Vision a Reality in Your Datacenter

Example Instant Capacity Scenario

The remainder of this chapter will focus on an example scenario. This example will revisit the scenario described in Chapter 4, “nPartition Servers.” In the scenario, the nPartition server was configured with two cells in the rex01 nPartition and two absent cells. The scenario walked through the process of physically adding two new cells to the server. One of the new cells was added to the existing rex01 nPartition and the second new cell was used to create a new nPartition, rex02.

In this example scenario, instead of starting with two empty cells slots, unlicensed Instant Capacity components are present in the system. One Instant Capacity cell contains 4GB of unlicensed memory and eight unlicensed CPUs. Table ...