HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator Guide (includes A.05.07) (5900-1229, September 2010)
Therefore a single processor can have more than one core, and vPars commands will refer
to the separate cores as distinct “CPUs,” each with its own hardware path.
Two vPars terms pre-date multi-core processors, so they are exceptions to this terminology:
— “boot processor”, which refers to the CPU (that is, core) on which the OS kernel of the
virtual partition was booted, and
— “cell local processor (CLP),” which refers to a CPU on a specified cell.
For more information on dual-core processors, see “CPU: Dual-Core Processors” (page 209).
• Hyperthreading Hyperthreading is a new feature supported in HP-UX 11i v3 (11.31)
environments on servers with the dual-core Intel Itanium processors. It provides for executing
multiple threads on a single processor core; each thread is abstracted as a “logical CPU”
(LCPU). In vPars A.05.xx, you can enable and disable hyperthreading with the vPars Monitor;
however, in a mixed HP-UX 11i v2/v3 vPars environment, any virtual partitions running
vPars A.04.xx/11.23 will not boot unless hyperthreading is disabled. For more information
on hyperthreading, see “CPU: Hyperthreading ON/OFF (HT ON/OFF)” (page 211) and
“Setting Hyperthreading (HT ON/OFF) and cpuconfig Primer” (page 270).
CPUs are assigned to virtual partitions on a core basis, and not on a logical CPU (LCPU)
basis.
• asyncdsk driver Many applications, such as databases, use the asyncdsk driver to lock
down memory for I/O transfers. As of this writing, the asyncdsk driver does not support
memory deletion. As a result, if the driver has locked down any float memory, then that
portion of memory cannot be deleted from a virtual partition.
See the most recent version of the HP-UX Virtual Partitions Release Notes for more information.
• PCI On-Line Addition and Replacement (OLAR) Except for the functions stated below, OL*
for PCI slots works the same on a vPars server as it does on a non-vPars server. Note that
you can execute PCI OL* functions only on the PCI slots that the virtual partition owns.
PCI doorbells (the physical attention button on the system) are supported beginning with
the HP-UX December 2003 HWE release and vPars A.03.01.
(PA-RISC only) In a vPars system, a reboot of the virtual partition does not power on a slot
that was powered off prior to the reboot. If you wish to power on the slot, you need to do
this manually after the reboot using the rad command: rad -i slot_id.
For information on the use of PCI Card OLAR features on HP-UX 11i v1 (11.11) see
Configuring HP-UX For Peripherals: HP 9000 Computers at the HP Technical Documentation
website:
http://docs.hp.com/en/oshpux11i.html#System%20Administration
For information on the use of PCI Card OLAR features on HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23) or HP-UX
11i v3 (11.31) see the Interface Card OL* Support Guide at the HP Technical Documentation
website:
http://docs.hp.com/en/ha.html#System%20Administration
The PCI OL* error recovery features that are supported in 11.31 are also supported within
a vPars environment. For complete information on PCI OL* error recovery, see the following
documents available at the HP Technical Documentation website (http://docs.hp.com):
— PCI Error Recovery Product Note
— PCI Error Recovery Support Matrix
• Support Tools For information on the required version of the Support Tools package that
can run on your vPars server, see the section on Online Diagnostics in the HP-UX Virtual
Partitions Ordering and Configuration Guide.
Prior to STM version A.43.00 (December 2003), in a vPars environment if the LPMC (Low
Priority Machine Check) Monitor (now known as CPU Monitor) of the Support Tools bundle
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