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

Monitor and Shell Commands

Performing nPartition Operations

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Performing nPartition Operations

You can perform nPartition operations in a vPars environment, keeping

in mind the following:

• If you make a nPartition change where a Reboot for Reconﬁguration

is required, all the virtual partitions within the nPartition need to be

shutdown and the monitor rebooted in order for the reconﬁguration

to take effect.

• Once the BIB (Boot-Is-Blocked) state is set on the nPartition, virtual

partitions will not be able to boot up until all the virtual partitions

have been shutdown and the monitor rebooted.

For general concepts on virtual partitions within nPartitions, see

“nPartitions” on page 23.

Examples For the following examples, the virtual partitions winona1 and winona2

exist within the nPartition 0. Only relevant output is shown.

Reconﬁguring a nPartition

1. Perform the changes as you would in a non-vPars environment. For

example, if we want to add cell 6 to partition 0:

winona1# parmodify -p0 -a6:base:y:ri

In order to activate any cell that has been newly added,reboot

the partition with the -R option.

Command succeeded.

2. Perform a Reboot-for-Reconﬁg (RFR) from a virtual partition. For

example,

winona1# vparstatus

winona1# shutdown -R

Transition to run-level0 is complete.

Executing "/sbin/reboot-R ".

Note: If this is a partitionable system, the requested

reconfiguration will not take place until all the virtual

partitions on this hard partition are shut down and the virtual