HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator Guide (includes A.05.08) (5900-1312, March 2011)

Virtual Partition Names.......................................................................................................51
Minimal Hardware Configuration.........................................................................................51
CPUs................................................................................................................................51
vPars A.04.xx and later.................................................................................................52
vPars A.03.xx and earlier...............................................................................................52
Memory...........................................................................................................................53
I/O..................................................................................................................................53
Assigning I/O at the LBA LevelI/O allocationexamplelocal bus adapterI/O allocation and.....53
Assigning the Hardware Console LBA...................................................................................54
Choosing the Boot and Lan Paths.........................................................................................55
Autoboot..........................................................................................................................55
Virtual Partition Plan...........................................................................................................56
Mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars Environments in vPars A.04.05.......................................................56
Features of Mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars Environments...........................................................57
Feature Summary...............................................................................................................58
Mixed HP-UX 11i v2/v3 vPars Environments in vPars A.05.xx........................................................58
Features............................................................................................................................59
Feature Summary...............................................................................................................60
Booting Summary..............................................................................................................61
Determining the Version in a Mixed HP-UX 11i v2/v3 vPars Environment...................................61
Mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2/v3 vPars Environments in vPars A.05.03..................................................62
Features of Mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2/v3 vPars Environments.....................................................62
Features Summary..............................................................................................................64
Planning Your Virtual Partitions for LORA Support........................................................................64
LORA Support...................................................................................................................64
Prerequisite.......................................................................................................................65
Configuring vPars for LORA Support.....................................................................................65
Planning Your Virtual Partitions based on LORA Guidelines.....................................................65
Virtual Partitions Layout Plan Implementation with LORA Guidelines..........................................66
Implementing LORA Guidelines in Mixed HP-UX 11i v2/v3 vPars Environments...........................68
LORA Support Limitations....................................................................................................68
4 Installing, Updating, or Removing vPars and Upgrading Servers with vPars......69
Notes, Cautions, and Other Considerations Before You Update or Install vPars...............................69
Notes...............................................................................................................................69
Cautions...........................................................................................................................70
Other Considerations.........................................................................................................70
Installing Server Firmware on non-nPartitionable Servers.....................................................71
Setting the GSP Terminal Type.........................................................................................71
How to Set the GSP Terminal Type..............................................................................72
Increase in Size of /stand File System..............................................................................72
VxFS (Veritas File System) (vPars A.03.xx).........................................................................72
SecurePath...................................................................................................................72
Bundle Names.......................................................................................................................73
vPars Product Bundles.........................................................................................................73
vPars-related Bundles (A.03.xx and earlier)............................................................................74
Installing and Removing vPars-related Bundles ..................................................................74
B6826AA (parmgr)...................................................................................................74
VPARMGR...............................................................................................................74
Installing vPars and the vPars-related Bundles from CD...................................................75
Setting Up the Ignite-UX Server.................................................................................................75
Ignite-UX Versions..............................................................................................................75
Determining the Ignite-UX Version........................................................................................75
Ignite-UX Cookbook...........................................................................................................75
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