Installing and Managing HP-UX Virtual Partitions (includes A.04.02)

Introduction

HP Product Interaction

Chapter 1

• Support Tools

For information on the required version of the Support Tools package that can run on your vPars server,

see the section on Online Diagnostics in the HP-UX Virtual Partitions Ordering and Configuration Guide.

Prior to STM version A.43.00 (December 2003), in a vPars environment if the LPMC (Low Priority

Machine Check) Monitor (now known as CPU Monitor) of the Support Tools bundle deactivates a

processor, it does not automatically replace the failing processor with an iCAP (formerly known as iCOD)

processor. The processor replacement must be performed manually using the icod_modify command.

For more information, see the manual titled Instant Capacity User’s Guide at http://docs.hp.com.

Beginning with STM version A.43.00, in a vPars environment, the LPMC monitor automatically replaces

a failing processor with an iCAP processor if an iCAP processor is available.

CAUTION CPU Expert Tool is supported on vPars servers. However, using this on vPars servers may

cause unpredictable results. For complete information on using the Support Tools with

vPars, see the Support Tools document:

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/diag/stm/stm_vpar.htm

• CSTM’s CPU Info Tool

With STM version A.43.00, the CSTM's cpu info tool will show information about the bound processors

assigned to that partition and unbound processors not assigned to any partition. For unbound procesors

assigned to other partitions, it shows N/A.

With STM version C.48.00 (HWE0505) and later, the CSTM's CPU info tool will show information about

all the CPUs that are assigned to the current partition.

When using cstm’s info command, information is shown only for the processors that are currently owned

by the virtual partition from which the info command is run. For the CPUs which are not assigned to the

virtual partition, the information is displayed as N/A.

• ODE Diagnostic and IO Card Utilities (Integrity Only)

ODE diagnostics utilities, such as CEC, CPU, or MEM, will not operate in vPars mode. Also, the IO card

and diagnostic utilities, such as FCFUPDATE and IODIAG.efi, will not operate in vPars mode.

You must boot the nPartition into nPars mode to operate these utilities.

For more information on modes, see “Modes: Switching between nPars and vPars Modes (Integrity only)”

on page 95

Ignite-UX

— Making Depots for Ignite-UX:

For information on where to find a "cookbook" for setting up your Ignite-UX server for use with vPars,

see “Setting Up the Ignite-UX Server” on page 64.

— Reading the CPU counts from Ignite-UX (vPars A.03.xx and earlier):

When Ignite-UX reports the Total Number of CPUs for a partition, it includes unassigned unbound

CPUs in the count. For information on bound and unbound CPUs, see “CPU: Bound and Unbound” on

page 210.