Installing and Managing HP-UX Virtual Partitions (A.02.01)

Monitor and Shell Commands

Shutting Down or Rebooting a Virtual Partition

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Shutting Down or Rebooting a Virtual

Partition

A virtual partition can be gracefully shut down or rebooted via the

HP-UX command shutdown. To ensure that the partition database is

synchronized (see “vPars Partition Database” on page 38), execute the

vparstatus command prior to executing the shutdown command.

Examples • To shutdown the virtual partition winona1:

winona1# vparstatus

winona1# shutdown -h

After winona1 is shutdown, the virtual partition is in the down state.

For more information, see “Virtual Partition States” on page 129.

• To reboot the virtual partition winona1:

winona1# vparstatus

winona1# shutdown -r

NOTE If a virtual partition has its autoboot attribute set to MANUAL, the virtual

partition will only halt and will not reboot when the command shutdown

-r (or reboot -r) is given. For more information on the virtual partition

attributes, see the vparmodify (1M) manpage and “Modifying Attributes

of a Virtual Partition” on page 139.

For the -R and -r options of the shutdown and reboot commands, the

virtual partition will not reboot when there is a pending reboot for

reconﬁguration (RFR) until all the virtual partitions within the

nPartition have been shutdown and the vPars monitor has been

rebooted. Also, the requested reconﬁguration will not take place until all

the virtual partitions have been shutdown and the vPars monitor has

been rebooted.

When you need to force a non-graceful shutdown, such as when a

partition appears hung, use vparreset. See “Resetting a Hung Virtual

Partition” on page 132.

The shell commands shutdown and reboot apply only to the OS instance

of the virtual partition from which they are executed and do not shut

down or reboot any other virtual partitions or the vPars monitor.