Installing and Managing HP-UX Virtual Partitions (includes A.04.01)

Monitor and Shell Commands
Using an Alternate Partition Database File
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This change will be synchronized to the local copies of /stand/vpdb.sim. (If /stand/vpdb.sim does not
exist, as in this case on winsim2, the file will be automatically created during synchronization).
4. To return to using /stand/vpdb, do the same steps as above, except on the ISL command line in Step 3 is:
ISL> hpux /stand/vpmon -a
By default, the file /stand/vpdb is read as the partition database file.
When working with an alternate partition database file using -D filename, please note the following:
• filename must reside in /stand when the server boots because the vPars Monitor can only traverse HFS
file systems of the boot disk.
• Be careful when creating partitions using the -D option. Fewer checks on configuration are being
performed. It is possible to create a partition configuration that is not valid.
• All LVM rules still apply. For example, you cannot migrate IO only by re-assigning the IO to a different
partition; you must still vgexport and vgimport the volume groups.
• (pre A.03.02) Although there is no command that displays which partition database file was read when
the Monitor was booted, because the local copies of the active database are synchronized every five
seconds, you should be able to tell which database file was read and is active based on the time stamps of
the various database files in /stand.