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

Number of Virtual Partitions...........................................................................................................52
Virtual Partition Names...................................................................................................................52
Minimal Hardware Configuration..................................................................................................52
CPUs................................................................................................................................................52
vPars A.04.xx and later...............................................................................................................53
vPars A.03.xx and earlier............................................................................................................53
Memory...........................................................................................................................................54
I/O....................................................................................................................................................54
Assigning I/O at the LBA Level..................................................................................................54
Assigning the Hardware Console LBA...........................................................................................55
Choosing the Boot and Lan Paths....................................................................................................57
Autoboot..........................................................................................................................................57
Virtual Partition Plan.......................................................................................................................57
Mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars Environments in vPars A.04.05...........................................................58
Features of Mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars Environments..............................................................58
Feature Summary............................................................................................................................59
Mixed HP-UX 11i v2/v3 vPars Environments in vPars A.05.xx...........................................................60
Features............................................................................................................................................60
Feature Summary............................................................................................................................61
Booting Summary............................................................................................................................62
Determining the Version in a Mixed HP-UX 11i v2/v3 vPars Environment...................................62
Mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2/v3 vPars Environments in vPars A.05.03......................................................63
Features of Mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2/v3 vPars Environments.........................................................63
Features Summary...........................................................................................................................65
Planning Your Virtual Partitions for LORA Support............................................................................65
LORA Support.................................................................................................................................65
Prerequisite......................................................................................................................................66
Configuring vPars for LORA Support.............................................................................................66
Planning Your Virtual Partitions based on LORA Guidelines........................................................66
Virtual Partitions Layout Plan Implementation with LORA Guidelines........................................67
Implementing LORA Guidelines in Mixed HP-UX 11i v2/v3 vPars Environments.......................69
LORA Support Limitations.............................................................................................................69
4 Installing, Updating, or Removing vPars and Upgrading Servers with vPars........71
Notes, Cautions, and Other Considerations Before You Update or Install vPars................................71
Notes................................................................................................................................................71
Cautions...........................................................................................................................................72
Other Considerations.......................................................................................................................72
Installing Server Firmware on non-nPartitionable Servers........................................................72
Setting the GSP Terminal Type...................................................................................................73
How to Set the GSP Terminal Type.......................................................................................73
Increase in Size of /stand File System.....................................................................................74
VxFS (Veritas File System) (vPars A.03.xx)................................................................................74
SecurePath..................................................................................................................................74
Bundle Names.......................................................................................................................................74
vPars Product Bundles....................................................................................................................75
vPars-related Bundles (A.03.xx and earlier)....................................................................................76
Installing and Removing vPars-related Bundles .......................................................................76
B6826AA (parmgr)................................................................................................................76
VPARMGR............................................................................................................................76
Installing vPars and the vPars-related Bundles from CD.....................................................76
Setting Up the Ignite-UX Server...........................................................................................................77
Ignite-UX Versions...........................................................................................................................77
Determining the Ignite-UX Version.................................................................................................77
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