HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator's Guide (includes A.05.02)

Installing, Updating, or Removing vPars and Upgrading Servers with vPars

Notes, Cautions, and Other Considerations Before You Update or Install vPars

Chapter 4

Notes, Cautions, and Other Considerations Before You Update or

Install vPars

Notes

Please be sure you understand vPars before attempting the updates and installations. See Chapter 2, “How

vPars and its Components Work,” on page 29 and Chapter 3, “Planning Your System for Virtual Partitions,”

on page 51.

Booting from HP-UX Install Media

(Integrity only) Under vPars A.05.02 and later, the vPars Monitor supports booting an install kernel from

CD or DVD media with the vparload -p

partition_name

-D

disk_index

command. For details, see

“Monitor: Using Monitor Commands” on page 131.

Related Information

For information on the installation of HP-UX and what is supported for your HP-UX version, see the

applicable HP-UX 11i Installation and Update Guide and the HP-UX 11i Release Notes for your OS version.

For information on swinstall and software depots, see the manual "Software Distributor Administration

Guide for HP-UX".

For more information on booting and boot devices on PA-RISC systems, see also the paper titled Booting,

Installing, Recovery, and Sharing in a vPars Environment from DVD / CDROM / TAPE / Network available

at http://docs.hp.com/hpux/11i/index.html#Virtual%20Partitions.

For information on using the vPars commands, see the following sections in the chapter Monitor and Shell

Commands:

• “Managing: Creating a Virtual Partition” on page 155.

• “Monitor: Booting the vPars Monitor” on page 129.

• “Booting a Virtual Partition” on page 159

• “Shutting Down or Rebooting the nPartition (OR Rebooting the vPars Monitor)” on page 162.

Server Chipset Upgrade

The process documented in many of the updates assumes you are not performing a hardware upgrade that

causes a change in hardware paths (for example, upgrading from the sx1000 chipset to the sx2000 chipset).

For information on upgrading vPars when the upgrade includes a hardware path change, please see

“Upgrading Integrity Servers from the sx1000 to sx2000 Chipset” on page 103.

Cautions

Hardware Paths on the vPars Command Line

— Hardware Path Differences Between Cellular (nPartitionable) and Non-cellular Systems