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

• The vPars A.04.05 Monitor or later is required for a mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars
environment.
The vPars A.04.05 Monitor supports both virtual partitions running vPars A.04.05 on HP-UX
11i v2 (11.23) and virtual partitions running vPars A.03.05 on HP-UX 11i v1 (11.11).
• The vPars A.03.05 Monitor supports booting only the HP-UX 11i v1 vPars A.03.05
environment.
The vPars A.03.05 Monitor does not support booting HP-UX 11i v2 environments and does
not support Ignite-UX installation of HP-UX 11i v2 vPars using the vparboot -I command.
• HP-UX 11i v1 virtual partitions (running vPars A.03.05) can use vparmodify on itself only,
and cannot use the vparcreate and vparremove commands. Thus, in a mixed HP-UX
11i v1/v2 vPars environment, an HP-UX 11i v1 virtual partition cannot remove virtual
partitions, cannot create new virtual partitions, and can modify only itself.
• HP-UX 11i v2 virtual partitions (running vPars A.04.05) have no vPars command restrictions
as compared with a pure HP-UX 11i v2 vPars environment.
• The status details reported by vparstatus are determined by the target virtual partition
version and the vPars software version of the virtual partition issuing the command:
— When vparstatus is run from an HP-UX 11i v2 virtual partition targeting an HP-UX
11i v1 virtual partition, the result is shown in HP-UX 11i v2 (vPars A.04.05) format.
— The vparstatus command run from an HP-UX 11i v1 virtual partition does not report
cell local memory (CLM) and cell local processor (CLP) details for HP-UX 11i v2 virtual
partitions, even if they have CLM or CLP configured.
Likewise, the vparstatus -A command run from an HP-UX 11i v1 virtual partition
does not display CLP information.
— HP-UX 11i v1 bound processors are shown only when the HP-UX 11i v1 virtual partition
is in an “up” state.
— The vparstatus command run from an HP-UX 11i v1 virtual partition reports an
HP-UX 11i v1 virtual partition's bound and float CPUs in legacy format.
The vparstatus command run from an HP-UX 11i v1 virtual partition reports that
an HP-UX 11i v2 virtual partition's monarch CPU is “bound” and all other CPUs are
shown as unbound (floater).
The vparstatus -P command option is provided to display the HP-UX version running
on virtual partitions in a HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars environment.
• The vparstatus -P command option is provided to display the HP-UX version running
on virtual partitions in a HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars environment.
• When the vPars Flexible Administrative Capability feature is enabled, a vPars A.04.05 virtual
partition should be the designated-admin virtual partition. Because of HP-UX 11i v1 virtual
partition command restrictions in mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars environments, if only vPars
A.03.05 virtual partitions are configured to be designated-admin, then no virtual partitions
will be able to perform vparmodify, vparremove, or vparcreate operations on other
virtual partitions.
• HP Global Workload Manager (gWLM) is supported in mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars
environments with the following restrictions:
— Do not nest processor sets (Psets) under vPars A.03.05.
— Do not assign CLPs to any of the virtual partitions.
For details about these restrictions for using gWLM in a mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars
environment see the HP-UX Virtual Partitions Release Notes (A.03.05).
• The Virtual Partition Manager (vparmgr) GUI is not supported for managing a mixed
HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars environment.
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