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

Introduction
Supported Environments
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information in both the vPars partition database and the nPartition
complex profile, see “Using Primary and Alternate Paths with
nPartitions” on page 115.
If there is a pending reboot for reconfiguration (RFR) for the involved
nPartition, no virtual partitions will be rebooted until all the virtual
partitions within the given nPartition are shut down and the
involved vPars monitor is rebooted. This implies that the target
virtual partition of the vparload, vparboot, and vparreset
commands will not boot until all virtual partitions within the
nPartition have been shut down and the vPars monitor is rebooted.
For more information on performing nPartition operations within a
virtual partition, see “Performing nPartition Operations” on
page 122. For more information on using the -R and -H options of the
shutdown and reboot commands used in a RFR, see “shutdown and
reboot commands” on page 28.
For more information, see “Shutting Down or Rebooting the Hard
Partition (rebooting the vPars monitor)” on page 120 and the vPars
monitor command “reboot” on page 105.
Note: unlike the rp7400/N4000, on a Superdome and other
nPartition servers, the first element of the hardware path of the
ioscan output is the cell number. For example, on the rp7400/N4000
the ioscan output shows:
0/0 ba Local PCI Bus Adapter (782)
However, on a Superdome, the first element of the hardware path is
the cell number. So, if the cell number is 4, the ioscan output shows:
4/0/0 ba Local PCI Bus Adapter (782)
For more information on the nPartition hardware, see the manual
HP Systems Partition Guide.
• Support Tools
To run the Support Tools package on a vPars server, you need STM
version A.33.00 or later. (Note that for STM version A.33.00, the
equivalent swlist | grep Diag output displays the product as
OnlineDiag version B.11.11.07.xx). For more information, see
“Installing and Removing vPars-related Bundles” on page 81.