Installing and Managing HP-UX Virtual Partitions (includes A.03.03)

Virtual Partition Manager (A.03.xx and earlier)
About the Virtual Partition Manager (vparmgr)
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About the Virtual Partition Manager (vparmgr)
The virtual partition manager (vparmgr) provides an easy to use graphical interface to the vPars command
utilities. Using vparmgr, you can perform the following tasks:
• create a new virtual partition
• modify an existing virtual partition, including
— modify attributes such as boot path and kernel path
— add or remove processors
— add or remove memory
— add or remove IO local bus adapters
• delete an existing virtual partition
• display the resources assigned to each virtual partition
• display the status of each virtual partition
• display logs of vPars activity
• boot a virtual partition
• reset a virtual partition
The virtual partition manager has special features to save you time and effort:
• with a command-line parameter, you can start vparmgr directly in the task that you want to perform
• after using the graphical interface to select the task and options that you want to perform, vparmgr can
show you the command line that would perform the operation directly.
Starting the Virtual Partition Manager
Before you can start the virtual partition manager, vPars must be installed and running. For information on
installing vPars, see “Installing, Updating, or Removing vPars” on page 63. For information on installing the
virtual partition manager, see “Installing and Removing vPars-related Bundles” on page 64.
After vPars is installed and running, you must boot at least one virtual partition to a HP-UX kernel. You can
then start the virtual partition manager in that virtual partition by executing the command vparmgr
/opt/vparmgr/bin/vparmgr [-h]
/opt/vparmgr/bin/vparmgr -tcreate
/opt/vparmgr/bin/vparmgr -tmodify|par_details -pvp_name
With no arguments, the vparmgr graphical user interface is launched. You can perform all vparmgr
operations from the GUI, as discussed below under using the graphical user interface.
Options
-h
displays usage instructions
-t create
creates a new virtual partition