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

Planning Your Virtual Partitions and Installing vPars

Planning Your Virtual Partitions

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Virtual Partitions on nPartitions

If you are using vPars on a complex, you may want to distinguish the

names of your virtual partitions from the names of your nPartitions to

avoid confusion.

Minimal Hardware Conﬁguration

Every bootable virtual partition must have at least:

• 1 CPU

• RAM (sufﬁcient for HP-UX and the applications in that partition)

• a boot disk (when using a mass storage unit, please check your

hardware manual to verify that it can support a boot disk)

Although not required for booting a virtual partition, you might want to

add LAN card(s) as required for networking.

For your virtual partitions, use the number of CPUs, amount of memory,

boot disk conﬁguration, and lan cards as is appropriate for your OS and

applications.

CPUs

For detailed information on CPU allocation, please read “CPU

Allocation” on page 48.

The ioscan output for the example N-class shows the following

processors:

#ioscan -kC processor

H/W Path Class Description

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33 processor Processor

37 processor Processor

41 processor Processor

45 processor Processor

97 processor Processor

101 processor Processor

105 processor Processor

109 processor Processor