Increasing Flexibility by Mixing Minor Release of Virtual Partitions

5
Configurations
Supported vPar Configurations
The following vPars versions are supported in various mixed HP-UX combinations in vPars
environment.
Mixed HP-UX 11i v2/v3 vPars
For Mixed HP-UX 11i v2/v3 vPars environment within the same hard partition, you must use the
vPars monitor bundled with A.05.05 or later.
HP-UX 11i v2: A.04.07
HP-UX 11i v3: A.05.05, A.05.06, A.05.07, A.05.08
Supported Operating Environments
The following table lists the HP-UX Operating Environments that are supported by versions of the vPars
commands.
HP-UX OE versions required for the different supported vPar versions
vPar Command Version HP-UX OE Version(s)
A.04.07 HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23) June 2008 Update or later
A.05.05 HP-UX 11i v3 (11.31) March 2009 Update or later
A.05.06 HP-UX 11i v3 (11.31) March 2010 Update or later
A.05.07
HP-UX 11i v3 (11.31) September 2010 Update or later
A.05.08 HP-UX 11i v3 (11.31) March 2011 Update
After determining the HP-UX OE version, you can determine the vPar command version that can be
run on a monitor version. The table below is a support matrix of the mixed minor version. To read the
table, select the monitor version and read down the column and see which versions are compatible
with it.
vPar Monitor versions that are compatible with different vPar Command versions
vPar
Command
Version
Integrity vPars Monitor Version
A.04.07 A.05.05 A.05.06 A.05.07 A.05.08
A.04.07 Y Y Y Y Y
A.05.05
N
Y
Y
Y
Y
A.05.06 N Y Y Y Y
A.05.07 N Y Y Y Y
A.05.08 N Y Y Y Y
Y – Supported; N – Not supported