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

Monitor and Shell Commands

Modes: Switching between nPars and vPars Modes (Integrity only)

Chapter 5

Modes: Switching between nPars and vPars Modes

(Integrity only)

Modes

On an Integrity system, you will need to set the mode in order to boot into a specific mode. For

vPars usage, there are only two modes:

• vPars

sets the next nPartition boot to boot into the vPars environment. This allows you to boot the vPars

Monitor and therefore the virtual partitions in the next nPartition boot. You still need to boot the vPars

Monitor and the virtual partitions, but this mode allows you to do this.

• nPars

sets the next nPartition boot to boot into the standalone environment. In this mode, you cannot boot the

vPars Monitor and therefore the virtual partitions. However, you can boot any OE instance into

standalone mode.

You can set the mode from the following levels using the corresponding commands:

Commands to Set the Mode

• HP-UX Shell: vparenv [-m mode]

where

mode has the value of either vPars or nPars

sets the mode for the next nPartition reboot. Note that this may take a few minutes to process.

Example:

To set the nPartition into vPars mode so that the next nPartition boot allows you to boot the vPars

Monitor and therefore the vPars environment:

1. Set the mode

# vparenv -m vPars

2. Then, you manually reboot the nPartition:

# shutdown -r

Location Command

HP-UX Shell vparenv

MON> reboot

EFI vparconfig