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

Overview of the Mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars Environment Update Process.............................81
Update-UX Primer...........................................................................................................................84
OE Bundle Names for Update-UX.............................................................................................84
vPars Bundle Names for Update-UX.........................................................................................85
Changing nPartition Boot Paths To Boot the vPars A.04.xx Monitor..............................................85
The Update Process for Mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars Environments: Step by Step Details........86
Updating from vPars A.04.xx to Mixed HP-UX 11i v2/v3 vPars (A.04.xx and A.05.xx)
Environment.........................................................................................................................................93
Update-UX Primer...........................................................................................................................93
OE Bundle Names for Update-UX.............................................................................................94
vPars Bundle Names for Update-UX.........................................................................................94
Changing nPartition Boot Paths To Boot the vPars A.05.xx Monitor..............................................95
The Update Process: Goal................................................................................................................95
The Update Process: Step by Step...................................................................................................95
Updating from vPars A.03.xx to A.05.xx............................................................................................100
General Process for A.03.xx to A.05.xx Workaround (PA only)....................................................100
Updating from vPars A.03.xx to A.04.xx............................................................................................100
The Steps........................................................................................................................................101
Updating vPars A.03.xx to vPars A.03.05...........................................................................................103
The vPars A.03.05 Update Process.................................................................................................104
Updating from vPars (A.02.xx or A.03.xx) to A.03.xx ........................................................................105
Applying a vPars Sub-System Patch...................................................................................................106
Upgrading Integrity Servers from the sx1000 to sx2000 Chipset.......................................................107
Hardware Path Changes................................................................................................................107
vPars Database Changes................................................................................................................107
Hardware Path Tables....................................................................................................................107
Upgrading HP 9000 Servers from the sx1000 to sx2000 Chipset........................................................109
Hardware Path Changes................................................................................................................109
vPars Database Changes................................................................................................................109
Hardware Path Tables....................................................................................................................109
Upgrading Backplanes from PCI to PCI-X ........................................................................................111
Updates Involving VPARSBASE.........................................................................................................111
Installing vPars with Ignite-UX on PA-RISC......................................................................................111
Installing vPars with Ignite-UX on Integrity......................................................................................113
Installing vPars with Software Distributor ........................................................................................115
Removing the vPars Product..............................................................................................................116
From a Single Virtual Partition......................................................................................................116
From the Entire System.................................................................................................................116
5 Monitor and Shell Commands.................................................................................117
Notes on Examples in this Chapter.....................................................................................................118
Syntax of Example Commands......................................................................................................118
Example Server..............................................................................................................................118
Modes: Switching between nPars and vPars Modes (Integrity only).............................................118
Modes.............................................................................................................................................118
Commands to Set the Mode..........................................................................................................119
Differences Between vparconfig and parconfig..............................................................120
Usage Scenarios.............................................................................................................................120
EFI Boot Disk Paths, including Disk Mirrors, and vparefiutil (Integrity only)...........................122
Monitor: Booting the vPars Monitor...................................................................................................126
Monitor: Accessing the Monitor Prompt............................................................................................126
Monitor: Using Monitor Commands..................................................................................................127
Booting...........................................................................................................................................127
Displaying Information.................................................................................................................129
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