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

From the GUI
For information on rebooting the partition, see “From the GUI”.
NOTE:
• The Partitioning firmware subsystem might internally translate a reboot or a reset into
deactivation of the partition followed by an activation without user's intervention to enable
user intent during the following scenarios:
◦ When there are Resource-deconfigurations in an nPar whose Parspec change policy is
disabled.
◦ On failure of a normal reboot, OA firmware translates the reboot to
deactivation-followed-by-activation.
• If there is a blade deconfiguration, upon reboot, the blade will be excluded from the activation
by partitioning subsystem. In this case, you can preferably choose to perform the
DVD-disconnect
• Deconfiguration of a blade or Pending deletion of a blade
◦ vPar reboot
When there is a pending deletion of a blade (that is, which has active DVD connection)
the DVD connection will persist across the reboot operation.
◦ nPar reboot in vPars mode
Upon an nPar reboot, vPar should also be rebooted if any of the vPars have active DVD
connections hosted on the deleted blade or deconfigured blade, the DVD connect will
be terminated.
◦ nPar reboot in nPars mode
If there are any active DVD connections hosted on the deconfigured blade or deleted
blade, the DVD connect will be terminated.
SET PARTITION DVD
From the CLI
• Command:
SET PARTITION DVD {CONNECT | DISCONNECT}{nPartition number or
name}[:vPartition number or name] [ENCLOSURE {enclosure number}]
• Description:
Connect or disconnect the specified partition from the specified URL or local enclosure DVD
drive. DISCONNECT will detach any URL in addition to “Enclosure DVD”.
IMPORTANT: Before connecting a DVD to a virtual partition, the iLO rootport (or ioslot) from
any of the blades in the nPartition must be assigned to the target virtual partition.
NOTE: Any active DVD connections in the partition are terminated when the partition is
shutdown. The DVD module may only be connected to a partition if there is a EI Torito CD
format media inserted in the drive.
64 Booting and resetting Partitions (nPartitions and vPars)