HP-UX Virtual Partitions Release Notes (A.05.03)

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• Support for mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2/v3 vPars environments on PA-RISC systems only.

A mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2/v3 vPars environment allows you to have a vPars A.05.03 Monitor

and database that simultaneously supports virtual partitions running HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11),

HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23), and HP-UX 11i v3 (B.11.31) in the same nPartition.

Only the following vPars releases are supported in a mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2/v3 vPars

environment:

— virtual partitions running vPars A.05.03 on HP-UX 11i v3 (11.31)

— virtual partitions running vPars A.04.02 or later on HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23), and

— virtual partitions running vPars A.03.05 on HP-UX 11i v1 (11.11)

Mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2/v3 vPars does not refer to mixing hardware (PA-RISC and Integrity)

platforms. Additionally, virtual partitions running vPars A.05.02 or earlier on HP-UX 11iv3

(11.31), vPars A.04.01 or earlier on HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23), or vPars A.03.04 or earlier on HP-UX

11i v1 (11.11) are not supported in a mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2/v3 vPars environment.

• Support for the next-generation mass storage subsystem in HP-UX 11i v3 (including agile

addressing) has been extended to include vPars configurations and operations starting with

vPars A.05.03.

Agile addressing support is only provided for lunpath hardware paths, not for LUN hardware

paths. Use of LUN hardware paths will result in an error.

Agile addressing is supported only for HP-UX 11iv3 (11.31) releases of vPars, starting with

vPars A.05.03. It is not supported by vPars A.05.02 or earlier, vPars A.04.xx on HP-UX 11i

v2 (11.23), or vPars A.03.xx on HP-UX 11i v1 (11.11). This restriction also applies to mixed

HP-UX 11i v1/v2/v3 vPars environments. Virtual partitions running HP-UX 11i v1 or HP-UX

11i v2 do not support agile addressing.

• vMedia support.

HP-UX now supports read-only use of optical media via an iLO 2 MP on HP Integrity servers

based on the sx2000 chipset, including rx7640, rx8640, and HP Integrity Superdome servers.

— vPars A.05.03 supports all the standard iLO 2 MP features that are supported by HP-UX,

including the Lights Out Advanced features of vMedia. However, vPars does not support

virtual keyboard, video, and mouse features.

— Only one virtual partition at a time can use the Lights Out Advanced features of vMedia.

To move the vMedia attachment to a different virtual partition, the path associated with

the vMedia card must be reassigned to the other virtual partition.

To launch Ignite-UX via a vMedia DVD drive in vPars mode:

1. Set up a vMedia DVD drive using the Lights Out Advanced vMedia feature.

2. Insert an HP-UX OE DVD (such as the Virtual Server OE and Data Center OE) into the

vMedia DVD drive.

3. Assign the path associated with the vMedia card to the target virtual partition.

4. From the vPars Monitor prompt, issue the following vparload command to launch

Ignite-UX from the HP-UX OE DVD in the vMedia drive:

vparload -p targetVpar -D fsIndex

• On nPartitions with more than eight cells, the vPars software issues the following warning

before booting vPars.

**WARNING** Unsupported configuration: booting vpmon on nPar with >8 cells

vPars supports nPartition configurations with eight or fewer cells.