HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator's Guide (includes A.03.05 and A.04.05)

Number of Virtual Partitions...........................................................................................................54
Virtual Partition Names...................................................................................................................54
Minimal Hardware Configuration..................................................................................................54
CPUs................................................................................................................................................54
vPars A.04.xx and later...............................................................................................................55
vPars A.03.xx and earlier............................................................................................................55
Memory...........................................................................................................................................56
I/O....................................................................................................................................................56
Assigning I/O at the LBA Level..................................................................................................56
Assigning the Hardware Console LBA...........................................................................................57
Choosing the Boot and Lan Paths....................................................................................................59
Autoboot..........................................................................................................................................59
Virtual Partition Plan.......................................................................................................................59
Mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars Environments in vPars A.04.05...........................................................60
Features of Mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars Environments..............................................................60
Feature Summary............................................................................................................................62
Mixed HP-UX 11i v2/v3 vPars Environments in vPars A.05.xx...........................................................62
Features............................................................................................................................................62
Feature Summary............................................................................................................................63
Booting Summary............................................................................................................................64
Determining the Version in a Mixed HP-UX 11i v2/v3 vPars Environment...................................64
4 Installing, Updating, or Removing vPars and Upgrading Servers with vPars........67
Notes, Cautions, and Other Considerations Before You Update or Install vPars................................67
Notes................................................................................................................................................67
Cautions...........................................................................................................................................68
Other Considerations.......................................................................................................................68
Installing Server Firmware on non-nPartitionable Servers........................................................68
Setting the GSP Terminal Type...................................................................................................69
How to Set the GSP Terminal Type.......................................................................................69
Increase in Size of /stand File System.....................................................................................70
VxFS (Veritas File System) (vPars A.03.xx)................................................................................70
SecurePath..................................................................................................................................70
Bundle Names.......................................................................................................................................70
vPars Product Bundles....................................................................................................................70
vPars-related Bundles (A.03.xx and earlier)....................................................................................72
Installing and Removing vPars-related Bundles .......................................................................72
B6826AA (parmgr)................................................................................................................72
VPARMGR............................................................................................................................72
Installing vPars and the vPars-related Bundles from CD.....................................................72
Setting Up the Ignite-UX Server...........................................................................................................73
Ignite-UX Versions...........................................................................................................................73
Determining the Ignite-UX Version.................................................................................................73
Ignite-UX Cookbook........................................................................................................................73
Ignite-UX, the LAN, the LAN card, and vparboot -I......................................................................74
PA-RISC...........................................................................................................................................74
Integrity...........................................................................................................................................75
Updating from vPars A.04.xx to A.05.xx..............................................................................................75
Update-UX Preparation Steps.........................................................................................................76
OE Bundle Names for Update-UX.............................................................................................77
The Update Process: Goal................................................................................................................77
The Update Process.........................................................................................................................77
Updating from vPars A.03.xx to Mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars (A.03.05 and A.04.05)
Environment.........................................................................................................................................80
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