HP Superdome 2 Partitioning Administrator Guide (5900-2540, December 2012)

The following are the three ways of deleting cores:
By count: You must have at least one more core than the count, as used in either of the following
commands:
MyComplex> vparmodify N {npar_id} p {vpar_id} d cpu::{count}
For example,
vparstatus -p 1:1 -v
[Virtual Partition Details]
Number: 1
Name: vPar0001
RunState: UP
State: Active
[CPU Details]
Min/Max: 0/64
User assigned [Path]:
Boot processor [Path]: 1/1/0/0
System assigned [Path]: 1/1/0/0
1/1/0/1
1/1/0/2
1/1/1/2
Non-socket-specific:
User assigned [Count]: 0
System assigned [Count]: 4
Socket-specific [Count]: Socket-ID/Count
<none>
[IO Details]
{Root Port] [Slot]
10/1/0/2/0 10/1/1
[Memory Details]
ILM Total (MB): 8192
ILM Granularity (MB): 512
SLM (Socket-ID MB):
SLM Granularity (MB): 1024
[OL* Details]
Sequence ID: 1
Operation: CPU Addition
Status: PASS
[Containing nPartition Details]
nPartition number: 1
nPartition name: nPar0001
Current boot mode: vpars
Next boot mode: vpars
vparmodify -N1 -p1 -d cpu::1
vparmodify: Operation initiated successfully. Please run vparstatus
with -v option to determine the completion status of the operation.
vparstatus -p 1:1 -v
[Virtual Partition Details]
Number: 1
Name: vPar0001
RunState: UP
State: Active
[CPU Details]
Min/Max: 0/64
User assigned [Path]:
Boot processor [Path]: 1/1/0/0
System assigned [Path]: 1/1/0/0
1/1/0/1
1/1/0/2
112 Managing and Booting Virtual Partitions