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

HPUX11i-OE-MC
Mission Critical OE
When choosing the OE, you should select the same OE that your virtual partition is running.
Use the swlist command to check which OE the virtual partition is running is currently running:
# swlist -l bundle | grep -i OE
HPUX11i-OE-MC B.11.11.0612 HP-UX Mission Critical Operating Environment Component
This shows the virtual partition is running a Mission Critical OE.
vPars Bundle Names for Update-UX
For vPars, the possible vPars bundles are:
T1335AC
vPars A.03.xx bundle
T1335BC
vPars A.04.xx bundle
In a mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars environment, the virtual partitions running A.03.xx must be
running version A.03.05 or later. Therefore, the “Revision” field in the depot should be A.03.05
or greater. Using swlist, we can find the revision number for the vPars A.03.xx bundle on the
depot.
# swlist -d @ depot1:/release/1111/HPUX11i-OE-Ent.DVD | grep T1335AC
T1335AC A.03.05.02 HP-UX Virtual Partitions
Likewise, in a mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars environment, the virtual partitions running A.04.xx
must be running version A.04.05 or later. Therefore, the “Revision” field in the depot should be
A.04.05 or greater. Use the swlist command to find the revision number for the vPars A.04.xx
bundle on the depot.
Changing nPartition Boot Paths To Boot the vPars A.04.xx Monitor
CAUTION: To boot a mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars environment, you must boot a vPars A.04.05
or later vPars Monitor.
NOTE: To change the nPartition’s PRI boot path, you cannot use setboot from within a virtual
partition; using setboot within a virtual partition changes only the virtual partition’s primary
path entry in the vPars database.
You can use parmodify to change the nPartition boot path, or you can make the change at the
Boot Console Handler (BCH) PA-RISC firmware interface.
Using parmodify to change the nPartition PRI boot path to point to a vPars A.04.05 boot disk
is the method used in “Overview of the Mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars Environment Update
Process” (page 86) and “The Update Process for Mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars Environments:
Step by Step Details” (page 91).
You can configure boot options for an nPartition by using the /usr/sbin/parmodify command
from the HP-UX command line in any virtual partition in the nPartition.
The format for changing nPartition boot paths using parmodify is as follows:
parmodify -p partitionNumber [-b priPath] [-t haaPath] [-s altPath]
where:
• partitionNumber is the nPartition to be modified. You can use the parstatus -w
command to list the local nPartition number.
• priPath is the primary boot path (PRI on HP 9000 servers, or the first item in the boot
options list on HP Integrity servers).
• haaPath is the secondary boot path (the HAA boot path on HP 9000 servers, or the second
item in the boot options list on HP Integrity servers).
• altPath is the alternate boot path (ALT on HP 9000 servers, or the third item in the boot
options list on HP Integrity servers).
90 Installing, Updating, or Removing vPars and Upgrading Servers with vPars