Managing Superdome Complexes: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators

Conﬁguring and Managing Superdome Partitions

Procedures for Managing Partitions

Chapter 4178

Adding Cells to a Partition

Adding cells to a partition involves selecting available cells (those not

currently assigned to a partition) and assigning them to an existing

partition. Both the selected cells and any I/O chassis connected to the

cells are assigned to the designated partition.

When adding cells to a partition, you must adhere to the requirements

and guidelines described in “Partition Conﬁguration Guidelines” on

page 125. Hewlett-Packard supports only a speciﬁc set of partition

conﬁgurations.

You can add cells to the local partition or to any remote partitions in the

same Superdome complex.

HP-UX Commands This procedure adds cells to a partition using HP-UX commands.

Step 1. Use the parstatus -AC command to list all available (unassigned) cells

in the complex.

Step 2. Select the eligible cell from the list, based on your previous planning.

Step 3. Modify the partition.

Use the parmodify -p# -a#... command to add the cell. If modifying a

remote partition, you can specify the -B option as well.

See “parmodify Command” on page 211 for details on the options you

must specify (-a#:base:use-on-next-boot:ri) when adding the cell.

Step 4. Perform a reboot-for-reconﬁg on the modiﬁed partition, if needed.

If you added the cell to an active (local or remote) partition, you must use

the shutdown -R or reboot -R command to reboot the partition. You

must perform this step to add the cell to the partition. If you added the

You can perform this task using HP-UX commands or

Partition Manager.

• “HP-UX Commands” on page 178

• “Partition Manager” on page 179