HP-UX Virtual Partitions Ordering and Configuration Guide (v09.06.16)

4.3 Supported Cards
Boot Recommendations After the boot of the initial virtual partition, it is recommended that
the deployment tool Ignite-UX be used to boot the other virtual partitions.
Boot Constraints Beyond the recommendation above, tape, CD/DVD, and lan/bootp booting
(except through Ignite-UX) of virtual partitions within a vPars environment are not supported.
For more information on booting and boot devices, see the paper titled Booting, Installing,
Recovery, and Sharing in a vPars Environment from CD/DVDROM/TAPE /Network available
at http://docs.hp.com/hpux/11i/index.html#Virtual%20Partitions.
I/O Expander (IOX) vPars supports a virtual partition to be booted off a vPars-supported I/O
card configured in the I/O expander: The Superdome IOX (I/O Expander) is supported for data
and boot as of vPars A.02.01.
• The rp8400 and rp8420 SEU/IOX are supported for data and boot as of vPars A.03.01.
• The rx8420 and rx8640 SEU/IOX is supported for data and boot as of vPars A.04.01.
Audio and Graphic Cards. Audio and graphic cards are not supported with vPars.
RAID 4Si Controller The RAID 4Si Controller (A5856A) is not supported with vPars. This is a
very low-volume card, supported on the rp54xx/L-class, rp7400/N4000, and rp8400 servers. For
similar functionality, customers can also use VERITAS Volume Manager’s software RAID5
functionality, which has been certified with vPars. You can also use the replacement for this card:
the A7143A 4-channel RAID 160.
4.3.1 Supported Mass Storage and Networking Cards (PA-RISC)
Mass Storage Cards For vPars on PA-RISC servers, the mass storage cards listed in Table 4-9
(page 33) are supported with the latest release of vPars.
32 Supported Configurations