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Appendix C 67
pay per use
The HP On Demand Solutions product that has a
pricing model in which you are charged for actual
processor usage. You acquire a specific hardware
platform, and number of processors, and are charged
for the actual usage, based on the percent utilization of
the processors.
portal
A HP web site that gives customers an interface to view
their PPU system/partition utilization information. See
“PPU Web Portal” on page 36 for details.
usage database
The HP repository that contains PPU system/partition
utilization information. You can access this information
through the PPU web portal.
utility meter
The software and hardware device that receives PPU
system/partition utilization information from the PPU
software. The utility meter is initially installed and
configured by a HP service representative.
virtual partition
A software partitioning of a computer or hard partition
where each virtual partition contains an instance of an
operating system. Though a hard partition can contain
multiple virtual partitions, the inverse is not true (that
is, a virtual partition cannot span hard partition
boundaries).