HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator Guide (includes A.05.07) (5900-1229, September 2010)

been booted successfully, this means the current firmware also has granularity values of
128 MB.
2. You create an alternate database /stand/vpdb.alt with a granularity value of 512 MB
for ILM and 256 MB for CLM.
# vparcreate -D /stand/vpdb.alt -g ILM:512 -g CLM:256 -p keira1 ...
3. This writes the granularity value to the vPars database but not to firmware, which allows
you to continue using the active vPars database /stand/vpdb with its 128 MB granularity
value.
When you wish to load /stand/vpdb.alt, you must then set the granularity value in
firmware using vparenv, reboot the nPartition, and load the alternate database.
# vparenv -g ILM:512 -g CLM:256
1
MON> reboot
2
...
HPUX> boot vpmon -D /stand/vpdb.alt
3
1
Set granularity value in firmware.
2
Reboot the nPartition.
3
Load the alternate vPars database.
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