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

Figure 40 Remote Console
NOTE: On HP Integrity Superdome 2, vpmon is not supported. If you attempt booting vpmon
from the ISL prompt the following error message is displayed:
ERROR: Unsupported boot environment for vpar monitor! Booting vpmon not supported on this
platform Resetting the system!
Managing: Creating a Virtual Partition
You can create a virtual partition using the vparcreate command.
Examples
• Consider that you want to create a virtual partition (vPar0001) in the first nPartition (nPar0001),
with 6 cores, 4 gigabytes of RAM, and the HBA in IO extender 6, Bay 2, Slot 3. This is done
from the OA command line with the vparcreate command. Because the command is issued
outside the nPar, either the option –N {nParID} or the vParID format of {nParID}:{vParID} is
used. For nPartitions, the ID can either be the partition name or number:
vparcreate –N nPar0001 –p vPar0001 -a cpu::6 -a mem::4096 -a
ioslot:6/2/3
• Consider that you want to create another virtual partition within the same nPartition, nPar0001,
with 2 cores, 8 gigabytes of RAM, and the HBA in IO extender 6, Bay 2, Slot 4.
vparcreate –N nPar0001 –p vPar0002
Use the vparmodify command to assign the resources.
vparmodify -p nPar0001:vPar0002 -a cpu::2 -a mem::8192 -a
ioslot:6/2/4
You can check the list of vPars and assigned resources using the following command:
vparstatus –N 1
[Virtual Partition]
Num Name RunState State
=== ========================== ============ =========
1 vPar0001 DOWN Inactive
2 vPar0002 DOWN Inactive
[Virtual Partition Resource Summary]
Virtual Partition CPU Num Num Granularity Total MB
Num Name Min/Max CPUs IO ILM SLM ILM SLM
=== ========================== ======= ==== ==== ===== ===== ====== ======
1 vPar0001 0/ 8 6 1 1024 1024 4096 0
2 vPar0002 0/ 8 2 1 1024 1024 8192 0
Booting a Virtual Partition
To boot a virtual partition, use the poweron command. The virtual partition must exist and be in
the DOWN RunState. To shutdown a booted virtual partition, see “Shutting Down or Rebooting a
Virtual Partition” (page 104).
98 Managing and Booting Virtual Partitions