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

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Contents

1 Introduction...............................................................................................7

Overview................................................................................................................................7

HP Superdome 2 terminology.....................................................................................................8

2 Partitioning in HP Superdome 2....................................................................9

Onboard Administrator and Partition Management.......................................................................9

Accessing the OA.....................................................................................................................9

OA CLI...............................................................................................................................9

OA GUI.............................................................................................................................9

Managing Partitions – basics...................................................................................................10

nPartitions ........................................................................................................................10

Virtual Partitions (vPars).......................................................................................................11

Commands: Partition Help pages..............................................................................................11

Commands: Partition commands logging...................................................................................12

Log file location and log format...........................................................................................12

Cases where no logging occurs...........................................................................................12

Cases where logging occurs................................................................................................13

Constraints and restrictions to logging..................................................................................13

Ordering and licensing...........................................................................................................13

nPartitions licensing............................................................................................................13

Virtual Partitions licensing...................................................................................................13

Related software licensing...................................................................................................14

Ordering vPars..................................................................................................................14

nPartition and Virtual Partition unique identifiers.....................................................................14

3 Getting started with nPartitions...................................................................16

Administration tool for nPartitions..............................................................................................16

Onboard Partition Manager................................................................................................16

Commands for configuring nPartitions...................................................................................16

nPartition resources.................................................................................................................17

Assigned or unassigned blades and I/O bays.......................................................................18

Active and inactive blades..................................................................................................18

I/O Enclosures and I/O bays..............................................................................................18

Finding the resource path of I/O ....................................................................................19

nPartition properties................................................................................................................19

Partition names..................................................................................................................19

Partition numbers...............................................................................................................19

Hyperthreading.................................................................................................................19

Enabling or disabling Hyperthreading on HP Superdome 2 using the GUI............................20

Enabling or disabling Hyperthreading on HP Superdome 2 using the CLI.............................20

Socket Local Memory.........................................................................................................20

Blade resource attributes..........................................................................................................20

Operating system specific default values for nPartition attributes....................................................24

Partition State and RunStates....................................................................................................24

Support for partition discovery at run-time..................................................................................26

Partition specifications (parspec)...............................................................................................27

Creating a Partition specification..........................................................................................28

Creating a current nPartition from an alternate Partition specification.........................................28

Removing a Partition specification........................................................................................28

Listing a Partition specification.............................................................................................28

Saving the current configuration of nPartition and switch to an alternate configuration.................28

Identifying Partition specification using the OA GUI................................................................29

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