HP Superdome 2 Partitioning Administrator Guide HP-UX 11i v3 HP Part Number: 5900-1801 Published: August 2011 Edition: 2.
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Contents 1 Introduction...............................................................................................7 Overview................................................................................................................................7 HP Superdome 2 terminology.....................................................................................................8 2 Partitioning in HP Superdome 2....................................................................
HP Superdome 2 Partitioning choices........................................................................................31 Superdome 2 CPU / CPU module support............................................................................34 CPU mixing support.......................................................................................................35 HP Superdome 2 memory support...................................................................................
UPDATE SHOW FIRMWARE...............................................................................................72 HP Superdome 2 Boot Support.................................................................................................73 Local Boot.........................................................................................................................74 Considerations for Local Boot..........................................................................................
Ignite-UX Cookbook..............................................................................................................103 Removing the vPars Product....................................................................................................103 10 Support and other resources...................................................................104 Contacting HP .....................................................................................................................
1 Introduction The HP Integrity Superdome 2 servers (HP Superdome 2) are scalable systems based on blade system architecture. HP Superdome 2 systems support HP nPartitions and HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPars v5). This administrator guide describes the steps to plan, create, and manage partitions – nPartitions and virtual partitions – on an HP Superdome 2 system. This document is for users who have prior experience in managing nPartitions and virtual partitions on HP servers.
You can manage partitions on HP Superdome 2 systems using the following methods: • From the OA: The OA Graphical User Interface (GUI) and Command Line Interface (CLI) support partition management user interfaces. NOTE: The initial release of HP Superdome 2 does not support iCAP CLIs on the OA. • From the partitions: The operation system based (Legacy) partition management command interfaces are supported from the partition OS instance, until these operations are targeted to that vPar instance.
2 Partitioning in HP Superdome 2 Onboard Administrator and Partition Management This chapter provides information on managing partitions – hard partitions (nPartitions) and virtual partitions (vPars v5) – using the Onboard Administrator. The OA supports both a GUI as well as a CLI. You can log in to the OA GUI by entering the appropriate URL in the web browser. The URL must include the hostname or IP address of the OA. Partitions on HP Superdome 2 systems support HP-UX 11i v3 operating environments.
Figure 1 OA GUI Login Screen 2. Enter the OA Administrator password. NOTE: The original Administrator password is available on a sticker on the OA module. Managing Partitions – basics The partition management architecture on HP Superdome 2 is designed to adapt to the new hardware and firmware architecture. This OA-based architecture supports integrated nPartition and virtual partitioning. nPartitions can be further subdivided using virtual partitions.
• Boot an existing nPartition. • Remove an nPartition. • Rename an nPartition. • Reset an nPartition. • Assign and unassign resources such as blades and I/O bays. You can define many possible configurations for an nPartition complex, and then control the configurations or partitions that can exist at any given point in time. This is possible by using partition specifications. You can use partition specification as a mechanism to store the definition of a partition.
NOTE: — Run the help command at the OA prompt, to view the current list of Partition Help pages. — The Partition Help pages are: ◦ nPartition Commands parcreate, parmodify, pardefault, parremove, parstatus, and parperm ◦ vPartition Commands vparcreate, vparmodify, vparreset, vparremove, vparstatus, vparresources, resourcepath and vecheck ◦ vparresources and resourcepath are not commands.
Cases where logging occurs Logging occurs when the commands either change or affect the state of partitions. The commands include parcreate, parmodify, parremove, vparboot, vparcreate, vparenv, vparremove, vparmodify, and vparreset. Constraints and restrictions to logging • The command line text will be logged on only the partition from which the command was executed. The logging of the command will not be duplicated to the target syslog file (the syslog file of the target partition.
NOTE: HP Integrity servers running the new HP sx3000 chipset are quad core (4 cores per processor or per socket), but HP-UX licensing is per socket or per processor. Therefore, one per socket software license is required for each quad-core processor. The processor and the socket represent a processing unit, and includes 4 cores. Though vPars can be created from the OA without purchasing a vPar license, HP does not support such configurations.
NOTE: Use the getconf command or the confstr() call to obtain the unique identifiers. Do not use the uname -i command, which does not report unique IDs for nPartition systems. To guarantee compatibility on current and future platforms, use the interfaces to getconf(1) and confstr(3C) to retrieve unique machine identifiers. These interfaces and the commands listed below are available from the HP-UX operating system running in the nPartition or vPar.
Example 1 Determining if an OS instance is running on Superdome 2 hardware Example 1 illustrates how the 'model' and 'getconf' commands can be used to determine whether an OS is running on Superdome 2 hardware. # /usr/bin/getconf MACHINE_MODEL ia64 hp Superdome2 16s # /usr/bin/model ia64 hp Superdome2 16s In both the examples, the presence of “Superdome 2” in the output string indicates that the nPartition or virtual partition is running on a Superdome 2 complex.
3 Getting started with nPartitions HP Superdome 2 with sx3000 processors uses c-Class technology for the architecture of the system. The HP Superdome 2 is managed by an OA with enhanced firmware. The OA has partitioning capabilities, both for hard partitions (nPartition) and for virtual partitions (vPar). You can manage the nPartitions and vPars through the OA without installing the software on any disk. Partitions can also be managed from the OS's in the partitions (nPartition or vPar).
Table 2 nPartition Commands (continued) Command Description parperm Configures partition configuration privilege for nPartitions and vPars . For more information, see help parperm. NOTE: The parperm command is available only from the onboard administrator. parremove Removes an existing nPartition. For more information, see help parremove. parstatus Displays nPartition information and hardware details for a server complex. For more information, see help parstatus.
[Blade] Enclosure/ Usage/ Blade Status* CPU OK/ Indicted/ Deconf/ Max ========== ======================= ========= 1/1 Inactive Base /OK 8/0/0/8 1/2 Inactive Base /OK 8/0/0/8 1/3 Inactive Base /OK 8/0/0/8 1/4 Inactive Base /OK 8/0/0/8 1/5 Inactive Base /OK 8/0/0/8 1/6 Inactive Base /OK 8/0/0/8 1/7 Inactive Base /OK 8/0/0/8 1/8 Inactive Base /OK 8/0/0/8 * D-Deconfigured Memory (GB) OK/ Indicted/ Deconf =============== 128.0/0.0/0.0 128.0/0.0/0.0 128.0/0.0/0.0 128.0/0.0/0.0 128.0/0.0/0.0 128.0/0.0/0.0 128.
Active and inactive blades Blades that are assigned to an nPartition and have been booted are active blades whose resources (processors, memory, and on-board I/O) can be actively used by software running in the nPartition. Blades that are Inactive are either not assigned to an nPartition (recognized by the empty Par Num field against the blades in the parstatus command output) or are assigned to an nPartition that is not yet powered on (partition status Inactive/DOWN in the parstatus command output).
Partition names Specifies the name of the nPartition. The parcreate —P name command is used to create an nPartition with a name associated with it. An nPartition name must have at least one of the following non-numeric characters: a-z, A-Z, dash (-), under-score (_), or period (.). An nPartition name with the same format as the default name can only be specified if the specified name matches the nPar number.
SLM can be specified as a blade resource attribute when creating nPartitions. The remaining available memory after specifying SLM is specified automatically as Interleaved Memory (ILM). For more information, see “Blade resource attributes” (page 22). Blade resource attributes With HP Superdome 2 nPartitions, blade attributes are specified using the parcreate and parmodify commands. The blade resource attributes are: • blade_path Specifies the blade resource path.
user shuts down the nPartition, and adds 8 GB memory to that blade. When the nPartition is booted again, the blade has 16 GB of memory; so 8 GB (50%) is allocated as SLM. ◦ As an absolute number (default) This can also be optionally suffixed by "GB". The slm_value is interpreted as an absolute number of gigabytes of memory. Numbers other than integers and halves are rounded up to the nearest 0.5 GB. For example, 2.5 GB will not be rounded up. However, 2.3 GB will be rounded up to 2.5 GB.
parstatus -C [Blade] Enclosure/ Blade Usage/ Status* === 1/5 1/7 =============== InActive Base/OK Inactive Base/OK * D-Degraded CPU Memory OK/ (GB) Indicted/ OK/ Deconf Indicted Max Deconf ========== ============= 8/0/0/8 16.0/0.0/0.0 8/0/0/8 16.0/0.0/0.
ILM granule size at next boot SLM granule size SLM granule size at next boot Max number of ILM granules possible Max number of SLM granules possible User Specified Max number of blades Max number of blades at next boot User Specified Max number of vpars Max number of vpars at next boot Current boot mode Next boot mode Parspec Change Policy VGA VGA next boot mode Pending Deletion parstatus -C [Blade] Enclosure/ Usage/ Blade Status* === 1/5 1/7 * =================== InActive Base/OK Inactive Base/OK D-Degra
ILM granule size SLM granule size VGA : 1024 MB : 1024 MB : Enabled Partition State and RunStates Each nPartition has a State, and a RunState. The nPartition state indicates whether the nPartition has booted and represents the power state of nPartition. The nPartition runstate indicates the state of the nPartition with respect to OS instances. For more information on RunState, see “RunStates” (page 27).
parstatus -P [Partition] Par State/ Num RunState Status* # of # of ILM/ Blades IOBays SLM (GB)** === ======================= ======= ====== ====== ============= 1 Active /EFI OK 1 1 14.0/112.0 2 Inactive /DOWN OK 1 1 16.0/112.0 3 Active /RUN_VPARS OK 1 1 126.0/0.
Table 3 RunStates for nPartition Runstate Description DOWN The partition is inactive and powered off. ACTIVATING A boot operation has been initiated for this partition. FWBOOT The boot process is in the firmware boot phase for this partition and the partition has transitioned into the active status. EFI The partition is at the EFI shell. OSBOOT The boot process has started booting the operating system in this partition. UP The OS in this partition is booted and running.
Creating a Partition specification You can create a parspec using the following command in the OA CLI: • parcreate -C PartitionSpec:[:create_partition_flag] Where PartitionSpec is the name of the parspec to be created. The create_partition_flag can take the following values: ◦ y – the corresponding nPartition is created. ◦ n – the corresponding nPartition does not get created. This is the default. NOTE: ◦ The -C option creates only a partition specification.
Figure 3 Viewing Partitition Specification Information 30 Getting started with nPartitions
4 Planning nPartitions This chapter describes how to plan nPartition configurations. It also describes the nPartition configuration requirements and recommendations.
Figure 4 Partition Rules — 32s Details on possible uses of the alternative loading options: The alternative two cell blade partition with cell blades in slots 7 and 8 in enclosure 1 (shown in the light blue) is provided to allow 2 3-blade partition and 1 2-blade partition to co-exist in the same enclosure. The alternative two cell blade partition in slots 4 and 8 (bright green) is provided to support a two cell blade partition if two alternative three blade partitions are used.
Figure 5 Partition Rules — 16s Alternative options are provided in the event that a smaller partition is combined with a larger partition. For example, if a 3 blade partition is the only thing loaded, the blades are loaded in slots 1, 3 and 5. A second 3-blade partition is loaded in slots 2, 4 and 6. This is shown in the line 3P (preferred loading rules for 3 blade partitions).
Figure 6 Partition Rules — 8s NOTE: The loading rules for the SD2-8S are very similar to those for the SD2-16s except that no partitions larger than 4 blades are supported. This is a firmware limitation imposed on the SD2-8s. However, as seen from the loading options, all 8 blade slots can be populated in a SD2-8s. So you can have eight 1-blade partitions, four 2-blade partitions, two 4-blade partitions, or other combinations when a single partition is not larger than 4 blades.
CPU mixing support The following are the rules for mixing processors in Superdome 2: • Mixing of processor families within an nPartition is not supported • Processors running at different frequencies or different cache sizes within the same nPartition are not supported • The processor modules on a blade must have the same revision, frequency, and cache size. HP Superdome 2 memory support HP Superdome 2 memory is not backward compatible with the DDR DIMMs used on sx2000 Superdome based platforms.
[Enclosure] Enclosure Num ========= 1 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Enclosure Type ========= Compute IO IO IO IO IO IO IO IO Num Blades ====== 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Num IOBays ====== 0 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 Bay Slots ===== 8 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 Enclosure Name ========= stanley - [Blade] Enclosure/ Usage/ Blade Status* CPU OK/ Indicted/ Deconf/ Max ========== ======================= ========= 1/1 Inactive Base /OK 8/0/0/8 1/2 Inactive Base /OK 8/0/0/8 1/3 Active Base /OK 8/0/0/8 1/4 Inactive Base /OK 8/0/0/8 1/5 Active Base /
nl nl [Partition] Par State/ Num RunState Status* # of # of ILM/ Partition Name Blades IOBays SLM (first 15 (GB)** characters) === ======================= ======= ====== ====== ============= =============== * D-Degraded ** Actual allocated for Active and User requested for Inactive partitions 2.
5 Creating and configuring nPartitions This chapter describes the procedure to create, configure, and manage nPartitions on the HP Superdome 2 server.
Task summaries for creating and configuring nPartitions Table 5 nPartition Boot and Reset Task Summaries Task Summary Partition Default Attributes See (page 39). Create new nPartition See (page 40). Verifying the nPartitions using CLI See (page 41) Verifying the nPartitions using GUI See (page 42). Deleting an nPartition See (page 42). Renaming an nPartition See (page 43). Assigning blades and I/O bays to an nPartition See (page 43).
Creating a new nPartition This section describes the procedure to create an nPartition using the OA CLI and the GUI. Creating a new nPartition using the OA CLI Use the parcreate command to create a new nPartition on HP Superdome 2. The command takes the specified blades and I/O bays and assigns them to the new nPartition. If an nPartition number is not specified, the command finds an available nPartition number and assigns it to the new nPartition.
Verifying newly created nPartitions using the CLI To verify that the partitions are defined as desired, perform either of the following steps: • The parstatus –P command displays the summary data, as shown: parstatus -P [Partition] Par State/ Num RunState Status* # of # of ILM/ Blades IOBays SLM (GB)** === ======================= ======= ====== ====== ============= 1 Inactive /DOWN OK 2 0 32.0/224.0 2 Inactive /DOWN OK 1 1 16.0/112.0 3 Inactive /DOWN OK 1 1 16.0/112.
[Blade] Enclosure/ Usage/ Blade Status* CPU OK/ Indicted/ Deconf/ Max ========== ======================= ========= 1/1 Active Base /OK 8/0/0/8 1/2 Active Base /OK 8/0/0/8 * D-Deconfigured Memory (GB) OK/ Indicted/ Deconf =============== 128.0/0.0/0.0 128.0/0.0/0.
parspec and can be reused later. If the -Z option is specified, the command removes the current parspec when the nPartition is removed. To remove an nPartition, use the parremove command: parremove -p nPartition_id [-Z] [-F] For example: parremove -p 2 Removing (Deleting) an nPartition using the OA GUI To remove an inactive nPartition, select the check box corresponding to the nPartition name from the Complex nPartitions table, and then click Delete.
For more information, see the OA help, help parcreate and help parmodify . To add I/O bay 1 in enclosure 6 to the existing nPartition 2: parmodify -p 2 -a io:6/1: Assigning blades and I/O bays to an nPartition using the OA GUI To assign blades and I/O Bays to an nPartition using the OA GUI: 1. Select the nPartition from the left navigation pane, and then click Modify nPartition. 2. Expand the Blade Resources option. Figure 9 (page 44) shows the blade resource screen. Figure 9 Blade Resources Option 3. 4.
Figure 10 IOX Resources Option 5. 6. Select the I/O bay. Click Apply to commit your configuration changes. To cancel an operation, navigate away from the Modify nPartition screen. The blades and I/O bay are assigned to the nPartition. Removing blades and I/O bays from an nPartition This section describes the procedure to unassign or remove blades and I/O bays from an nPartition.
Removing blades and I/O bays from an nPartition using the OA GUI To unassign blades and I/O bays from an nPartition using the OA GUI: 1. Select the nPartition from the left navigation pane, and then click modify nPartition. 2. Expand the Blade Resources option. Figure 9 (page 44) shows the blade resource screen. Figure 11 Blade Resources Option 3. 4. Clear the blade resources that you want to unassign from the nPartition. Expand the IOX Resources option. Figure 10 (page 45) shows the IOX Resources screen.
Figure 12 IOX Resources Option 5. 6. Clear the I/O bay(s) that you want to unassign. Click Apply. The blades and I/O resources are unassigned from the nPartition. Renaming a server complex To rename a server complex using the CLI, run the following command from the OA: set complex name To rename a server complex using the GUI: 1. Select the Complex Information link in the left navigation pane. 2. On the Complex Information screen, click the Information tab. 3.
Setting blade attributes using the OA CLI You can set the blade attributes using the parcreate or parmodify commands. For more information about the parcreate command, see help parcreate. For more information about the parmodify command, see help parmodify. For example: To add the blade in enclosure 1 slot 5 with non-default attributes to the existing nPartition nPar0001: parmodify -p nPar0001 -a blade:1/5:base:n:ri:50% The example overrides the default value for use_on_next_boot to n.
5. 6. Select the appropriate attributes. Click Apply. The blade attributes are set.
6 Booting and resetting Partitions (nPartitions and vPars) This chapter introduces Partition system boot and reset concepts, configuration options, and procedures for booting and resetting Partitions. This chapter covers boot details for HP-UX 11i v3 operating system and the OA CLI and GUI.
Booting from the CLI To activate a partition from the command line, you can either use the poweron partition {identifier} command, the bo command, or the pe command. poweron partition 2 Poweron request sent to partition 2. Operation initiated successfully. Please run PARSTATUS/VPARSTATUS or SHOW SYSLOG OA to determine the completion status of the operation.
The bo command without arguments prompts you to select a partition to boot: bo This command controls power enable to a partition. Partition Number --------1 1:1 1:2 1:3 1:5 1:21 2 2:1 3 4 5 Q) Quit Partition Name --------nPar0001 nPar0001:vPar1 nPar0001:vPar0002 nPar0001:we nPar0001:vPar0005 nPar0001:vPar0021 nPar0002 nPar0002:vPar0001 hard_partition nPar0004 nPar0005 Select partition number:2:1 Poweron request sent to partition 2:1. Operation initiated successfully.
Figure 15 nPartition Status Information Figure 16 vPar Status information 2. Select the Virtual Devices tab, and then click on the Momentary Press button.
Figure 17 nPartition Virtual Devices tab Figure 18 vPar Virtual Devices tab 3. Navigate to the status tab to see the run state of the partition.
Figure 20 Active/EFI prompt State of vPar Getting a Console using the CLI To access the system console of a partition using the command line, run the CO command. It can be used either with the partition’s ID or without it as shown: co Partition Partition Number Name ----------------1 nPar0001 2 nPar0002 2:1 nPar0002:vPar0001 Q) Quit Select partition number: 2:1 ----Log Snippet------------Log Snippet--------Welcome to the Superdome 2 console
Figure 21 Remote Console Tab (nPar) Figure 22 Remote Console Tab (vPar) UEFI I/O device connection solution On platforms like Superdome 2, connecting all UEFI drivers to all the devices might take a very long time to complete, and this level of device connection is typically not needed. Similar to the sx2000 Superdome product, the default behavior on Superdome 2 does not force the connection of all UEFI I/O drivers to all devices. UEFI Shell commands are provided to manually connect more devices.
Figure 23 UEFI Front Page From the UEFI Shell, the ‘search’ command is available to manually connect devices in a specific I/O bay or even a specific I/O slot. Other device connection commands like ‘connect’ and ‘reconnect’ are also available from the UEFI Shell.
I/O bay for the partition, and the boot option value. The expanded policy can be changed, if a user wants to reduce or increase the amount of devices connected when launching one of the UEFI user interfaces. NOTE: If the expanded policy is changed from the default, and the partition configuration is changed (Example: replace lowest numbered I/O bay), UEFI does not automatically update the policy to take into account the configuration change.
PCI DEVICE INFORMATION Enc/ Bay/ Slot (dec) -----1/2/1 1/2/2 1/2/3 1/2/4 1/2/4 1/2/4 1/2/5 1/2/5 1/2/5 1/2/6 1/2/6 1/2/6 1/2/6 1/2/6 1/2/6 1/2/7 1/2/7 1/2/7 1/2/7 Seg/ Bus (hex) ----05/00 05/00 00/08 04/00 04/01 04/01 04/00 04/80 04/80 00/08 00/0B 00/0C 00/0C 00/0C 00/0C 00/08 00/0D 00/0D 00/0D Dev/ Func (hex) ----00/00 02/00 00/00 00/00 00/00 00/01 02/00 00/00 00/01 02/00 00/00 01/00 01/01 01/02 04/00 03/00 00/00 00/02 00/04 VendorID/ DeviceID (hex) --------103C/402F 103C/402F 103C/402F 103C/402F 14E4/1
M 003 Mac(002655A9CA32) PcieRoot(0x3)/Pci(0x2,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/MAC(002655A9CA32,0x0) 004 Mac(002655A9CA36) PcieRoot(0x3)/Pci(0x2,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x1)/MAC(002655A9CA36,0x0) nl nl nl nl nl nl nl nl nl nl nl Task Summaries for Rebooting and Resetting Partitions Table 6 describes the main nPartition boot and reset tasks and provides brief summaries and references for detailed procedures. You can perform the nPartition boot tasks in Table 6 (page 60) using either the OA CLI or the OA GUI.
POWEROFF PARTITION From the CLI • Command: POWEROFF PARTITION {{nPartition number or name} [:vPartition number or name] [FORCE] [OVERRIDE] | ALL [FORCE]} • Description: Gracefully shuts down any OS running on the specified nPartition or vPar and brings it to an inactive state. The active blades and IO interconnects in the nPartition are powered off if the specified target is an nPartition. The OVERRIDE argument shuts down all virtual partitions in the specified nPartition.
Figure 24 Status Information of an nPartition Figure 25 Status Information of a vPar 2. 62 Select the Virtual Devices tab. • For force poweroff, click the Press and Hold button. • For graceful poweroff, click the Momentary Press button.
Figure 26 Graceful and Force Poweroff (nPartition) Figure 27 Graceful and Force Poweroff (vPar) • Navigate to the status tab to see the run state of the partition.
NOTE: When an nPartition is active in vPars mode, the power operations require the OVERRIDE option to change the mode. POWERON PARTITION From the CLI • Command: POWERON PARTITION {{nPartition number or name} [:vPartition number or name][OVERRIDE]} • Description: If an nPartition is specified, this command powers on the blades and IO interconnects in the nPartition and boots the nPartition to EFI.
• Access level/Bay level: OA Administrator, OA Operator • Restriction: You must be connected to the monarch OA. From the GUI For information on rebooting the partition, see “From the GUI”. SET PARTITION DVD From the CLI • Command: SET PARTITION DVD {CONNECT | DISCONNECT}{nPartition number or name}[:vPartition number or name] [ENCLOSURE {enclosure number}] • Description: Connect or disconnect the specified partition from the specified URL or local enclosure DVD drive.
Figure 28 Connecting an enclosure DVD to an nPartition Figure 29 Connecting an enclosure DVD to a vPar NOTE: A vPar can make a DVD/vmedia connection only if it owns the I/O slot 7 of a server blade (an assigned resource of the containing nPar). When you want to connect or disconnect DVD to a vpar, make sure that you have assigned I/O slot 7 (iLO slot) of a blade. After you insert the DVD, the Connect to Enclosure DVD button is enabled. Or Select Launch Virtual Media.
Figure 30 Virtual Media Screen NOTE: Each nPar or vPar has its own Virtual media applet window, servicing the virtual media connection. When there are multiple applet windows opened, switching back and forth between the partition pages and applet windows, the virtual media connection may get disconnected. You must reconnect the partition to the virtual media if you encounter this problem.
Figure 31 SHOW Partition DVD for an nPartition Figure 32 SHOW Partition DVD for vPar 68 Booting and resetting Partitions (nPartitions and vPars)
SHOW PARTITION INFO • Command: SHOW PARTITION INFO {{nPartition number or name} [:vPartition name or number]|ALL} • Description: Displays information about the specified partitions. • Access level/Bay level: OA Administrator, OA Operator • Restriction: You must be connected to the monarch OA.
Figure 33 TOC nPartition Figure 34 TOC vPar UPDATE NPARTITION IMPORTANT: This command is not available if you are using complex firmware that is earlier than the Online Firmware Update release. To update firmware for all partitions, see “UPDATE FIRMWARE” (page 72).
monarch enclosure. This flash image is used to update the firmware for HP Superdome 2 cell blades within the specified partitions. ◦ The must be formatted as usb:// for USB installations. Use the SHOW USBKEY command to obtain the . ◦ The supported protocols for network installations are HTTPS, HTTP, TFTP, and FTP. ◦ The must be formatted as protocol://host/path/filename for network installations.
Figure 35 Firmware Summary Information UPDATE FIRMWARE CLI • Command: UPDATE FIRMWARE { } [ FORCE ] [ REINSTALL ] [ ALL ][ NOEXECUTE ] • Description: Updates the Superdome system's firmware (except I/O firmware) • Access level/Bay level: OA Administrator, OA Operator • Restriction: You must be connected to the monarch OA. UPDATE SHOW FIRMWARE CLI • Command: UPDATE SHOW { FIRMWARE | NPARTITION { nPar name or number | ALL } } • Description: Displays the configured Superdome firmware version.
GUI To view Firmware Summary information, click the Firmware Summary link. Figure 36 Firmware Summary HP Superdome 2 Boot Support This section provides details of the accessories supported by HP Superdome 2 for booting purposes. The only supported local disk is fibre channel – P2000 FC G3 array.
Local Boot Up to 4 boot paths are supported per P2000 FC G3 array. • P2000 FC G3 array can support up to two dual port array controllers • Each controller supports up to two 8GB FC links Considerations for Local Boot • Minimum configuration ◦ One P2000 FC G3 can handle up to 4 partitions ◦ Boot paths are not redundant – • You must shutdown HP Superdome 2 to update P2000 FC G3 firmware.
You must consider the following for a SAN boot: • Dual paths to SAN/storage is recommended for all partitions ◦ Allows online updates of switch and array firmware • Two hops or less is strongly recommended • No factory installation of operating environment is available ◦ nPartition and vPar definition is available and is independent of the installation of an operating system. nPartition and Resource Health Status The nPartition and resource status reveals the current health of the hardware.
OEM Manufacturer: N/A Total number of partitions present: 0 [Enclosure] Enclosure Num ========= 1 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Enclosure Type ========= Compute IO IO IO IO IO IO IO IO Num Blades ====== 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Num IOBays ====== 0 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 Bay Slots ===== 8 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 Enclosure Name ========= stanley - [Blade] Enclosure/ Usage/ Blade Status* CPU OK/ Indicted/ Deconf/ Max ========== ======================= ========= 1/1 Inactive Base /OK 8/0/0/8 1/2 Inactive Base /OK 8/0/0/8 1/3 Inactive B
[Partition] Par State/ Num RunState Status* # of # of ILM/ Partition Name Blades IOBays SLM (first 15 (GB)** characters) === ======================= ======= ====== ====== ============= =============== * D-Degraded ** Actual allocated for Active and User requested for Inactive partitions Viewing Partition and Resource Health Status Using the OA GUI To view the partition and resource health status using the OA GUI, select the nPartition from the left navigation pane.
For an nPartition, blades and I/O bays are activated only if they are reported as healthy by the Health management subsystem on the OA. Additionally, there is also a user specified attribute “failure_usage” for a blade and I/O bay. You can set this attribute to indicate whether the partition to which the nPartition resource or blade or I/O bay is assigned should be activated or not if it is found faulty. If the nPartition can be activated, the unhealthy resource is excluded before activating the nPartition.
7 Planning Your System for Virtual Partitions Planning Your Virtual Partitions A virtual partition is created by specifying the resources needed for the vPar. The resources that can be assigned to a vPar are: 1. CPU-cores - You must either specify the number of CPU-cores that are part of the vPar, or specify the resource paths of individual CPU-cores, or specify the socket resource paths and quantity from where the CPUs are to be assigned.
Minimal Hardware Configuration Every bootable virtual partition must have at least: • 1 CPU-core On HP Integrity Superdome 2, by default, a vPar is created with zero CPU-cores. Such a vPar cannot boot. • System memory (sufficient for HP-UX and the applications in that partition) • A boot disk (when using a mass storage unit, check your hardware manual to verify that it can support a boot disk) Although it is not required for booting a virtual partition, you can add a LAN card for networking.
NOTE: On an HP Integrity Superdome 2 system, a vPar is created with zero CPUs by default. Therefore, the default cpu:::[min] value is zero. The default cpu::::[max] value is the total number of CPUs in the nPartition. The virtual partition must be in the “Down” state to set the minimum or maximum value. The total count of CPUs in the virtual partition must always be greater than or equal to min and less than or equal to max.
Example • To create a virtual partition with 3 CPUs, set num to 3: vparcreate -N nParID -p vParID -a cpu::3 or vparcreate -p nparID:vParID -a cpu::3 vparmodify With the vparmodify command, you can use: • -a option to add num CPUs to the virtual partition, • -d option to delete num CPUs from the virtual partition, • -m option to modify (set) to num the number of CPUs assigned to the partition.
Examples • To create a virtual partition using 2 CPU-cores from socket 0 on blade 1: vparcreate -N -p -a socket:1/1/0:cpu::2 • To increase the number of CPU-cores by 2 using the CPU-cores from socket 0 on blade 1: vparmodify -N -p -a socket:1/1/0:cpu::2 • To decrease the number of CPU-cores by 2 removing CPUs from socket 0 on blade 1: vparmodify -N -p -d socket:1/1/0:cpu::2 NOTE: When CPUs are added using the socket local syntax,
Deleting CPU-cores Summary • If you want to control which CPU-core is deleted, use the same method—by SLP, by resource path, or by count-on your deletion command line that you used on your addition command line. CPU Allocation On HP Integrity Superdome 2, the parstatus command provides all the required CPU information from the OA without installing or booting to the nPar mode.
NOTE: The memory granules are not the actual memory DIMMs. You can specify the granularity for SLM and ILM separately. However, the following applies to both types of memory: • Memory granularity is specified during the creation of nPartition. Any modification thereafter requires you to reboot the nPartition. • The minimum values (ILM and SLM granularity) are 256 MB. • The default value is OS dependent and may be adjusted based on the total memory available in the nPartition.
# ioscan -m resourcepath | grep 9/1/3 48/0/0/2/0/0 0x90001000203ff85 ioslot-9/1/3 To get the IO details, this result is used in a second call to ioscan.
Table 9 Resource syntax summary Resource Forms Options # times/command CPU cpu:cpu_path -a, -d Multiple cpu::num -a, -m, -d Once cpu:::{min}:{max} -m Once socket:socket_id:cpu::num -a, -d, -m Once per socket_id core:core_path -a, -d Multiple core::num -a, -d, -m Once core:::{min}:{max} -m Once socket:socket_id:core::num -a, -d, -m Once per socket_id io:io_path -a, -d, -m Multiple ioslot:ioslot_path -a, -d, -m Multiple mem::ilm_size -a, -d, -m Once -- or -- I/O Memory
configuration to use the available healthy CPU-cores. The following are some of the cases where the partition controller may not allow the when parspec change policy is disabled: • There is a deconfigured or deactivated CPU, which has been reserved for the partition as part of the total (cpu::num) request and partition controller does not have any free CPUs with which to replace it. To correct this, you can delete CPUs from other partitions or from this partition.
8 Managing and Booting Virtual Partitions This chapter addresses the following topics: • “Modes: Switching between nPars and vPars Modes ” (page 89) • “Managing: Creating a Virtual Partition” (page 93) ◦ “Booting a Virtual Partition” (page 93) ◦ “Managing: Modifying Attributes of a Virtual Partition” (page 94) ◦ “Commands: Displaying vPars Resource Information (vparstatus)” (page 95) ◦ “Shutting Down or Rebooting a Virtual Partition” (page 98) ◦ “Shutting Down All Virtual Partitions” (page 99)
Figure 38 Setting mode using the OA GUI 90 Managing and Booting Virtual Partitions
Setting the mode using the OA CLI • parmodify -p [-N] next_boot_mode where: next_boot_mode has the value of either vPars or nPars Specifies whether the nPartition has to be booted as a single partition (nPars mode) capable of running only a single operating system (OS) instance or as one or more virtual partitions (vPars mode) as defined in the virtual partition database in the partition specification, each capable of running its own OS instance.
Figure 39 Booting vPar from the GUI Getting the vPar Console You can use either the command line or the GUI to access the system console of the virtual partition. From the CLI Use the co command with or without the partition ID. Example 5 Example co Partition Partition Number Name ----------------1 nPar0001 2 nPar0002 2:1 nPar0002:vPar0001 Q) Quit Select partition number: 2:1 ----Log Snippet------------Log Snippet--------Welcome to the Superdome 2 console
Figure 40 Remote Console NOTE: On HP Integrity Superdome 2, vpmon is not supported. If you attempt booting vpmon from the ISL prompt the following error message is displayed: ERROR: Unsupported boot environment for vpar monitor! Booting vpmon not supported on this platform Resetting the system! Managing: Creating a Virtual Partition You can create a virtual partition using the vparcreate command.
Booting from the CLI To set the vPars environment, you must set the nPartition into vPars mode so that the next nPartition boot allows you to boot into vPars mode. To set the nPartition mode: 1. Set the nPartition in vPar mode. # parmodify –p -N vpars 2. Do one of the following: a. poweron partition {nPartition identifier}[:{vPar identifier}] (Not specifying a vPar will result in all of the vPars in the nPartition to be booted.) b.
• To delete 1 GB of Socket Local Memory on enclosure 1, blade 2, socket 0 from the same virtual partition: vparmodify -N nPar0001 -p vPar0001 -d socket:1/2/0:mem::1024 • To add the I/O card in IOX 6, I/O bay 2, slot 3 to the virtual partition (io and ioslot syntax): vparmodify -N nPar0001 -p vPar0001 -a io:6/2/0/0/2 or vparmodify -N nPar0001 -p vPar0001 -a ioslot:6/2/3 Commands: Displaying vPars Resource Information (vparstatus) On HP Integrity Superdome 2, the Partition Controller running on the OA mai
Table 11 RunStates of an active Virtual Partition (continued) State Description DEACTIVATING This run-state is displayed while a shutdown/reboot of a virtual partition is being processed. RESETTING This run-state is displayed while a reset of a virtual partition is being processed. MCA An MCA occurred in the virtual partition and is being processed. INIT This run-state is displayed when an INIT of a virtual partition is being processed.
nPartition name: Current boot mode: Next boot mode: • nPar0001 vpars vpars To display the detailed attributes and resources of vpar1 in machine-readable format: vparstatus -M -p1:1 vPar0001;1:DOWN;Inactive::::0/8;;;;;0;6;:6/2/0/0/2;6/2/3:;4096;;;4096;1024;;;;1024:N/A;N/A;N/A:N:1;nPar0001;vpars;vpars • To display the CPU-core configuration information: vparstatus -d -N 1 CPU Config Assigned to path Status Num Name ========= ====== === ==================== 1/2/0/0 OK 1/2/0/0 OK 1/2/0/0 OK 1/2/0/1 OK 1/2/
vparstatus -r Partition Management Software Revision: 1.0 For details on the state and run-state of the virtual partition, see “Virtual Partition States” (page 95). NOTE: The information about the configured vPars in the SD2 complex can be obtained from the OA irrespective of the runstate of the nPartition or the vPars. You can use the vparstatus -N or parstatus -P [-v|-M] to list all vPars available in the SD2 complex.
NOTE: This is a graceful shutdown and allows the OS to transition through the shutdown process.
# vparstatus -N 1 # shutdown -h 3. After the virtual partition is in the down state, remove the virtual partition vPar0001: vparremove -N nPar0001 -p vPar0001 -f CAUTION: Involuntary use of this command leads to unforeseen consequences. Therefore, you must confirm the operation with the -f (force) option. Boot options management for partitions On HP Superdome 2 servers, each virtual partition has its own instance of UEFI.
9 Installing or Removing the vPars product from the OS This chapter addresses the following topics: • Before You Install the vPars Software • “Installing vPars” (page 101) • “Bundle Names” (page 103) • “Ignite-UX Cookbook” (page 103) • “Removing the vPars Product” (page 103) Before You Install the vPars Software You must have a complete understanding of vPars before attempting installation. For more information, see the “Planning Your System for Virtual Partitions” (page 79).
Installing through a Network with non-directed LAN boot (using an Ignite server). Requires boot server to respond to client request. a. b. c. Enter lanboot select at the UEFI shell. Select the desired LAN, for example, 01. Wait for the boot server to reply, and load the boot file (For Example: nbp.efi), then choose the operating system you want to install. Installing through a Network with directed LAN boot (using an Ignite server), using static client configuration. a.
6. Installing a vPar is similar to installing an nPar. For the next steps on vPars product installation on HP-UX, see the HP-UX Installation and Update Guide at: http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-core-docs. 7. To disconnect the DVD drive, use the set partition dvd disconnect npar:vpar command. IMPORTANT: This is a mandatory step to enable the DVD drive for future installations.
10 Support and other resources Contacting HP Before you contact HP Be sure to have the following information available before you call contact HP: • Technical support registration number (if applicable) • Product serial number • Product model name and number • Product identification number • Applicable error message • Add-on boards or hardware • Third-party hardware or software • Operating system type and revision level HP contact information For the name of the nearest HP authorized reselle
Table 12 Documentation and its location Documents Website HP Superdome 2 Onboard Administrator User Guide http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Product.jsp? lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=15351&prodCatId=321933 HP Superdome 2 Onboard Administrator Command Line Interface User Guide Virtual Partition documentation www.hp.com/go/hpux-vpars-docs HP-UX System documentation http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-core-docs Partition commands http://www.hp.
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A Partition commands This appendix contains a summary of the Partition commands and descriptions of their use. Table 13 Partition Commands Descriptions Command Description parcreate Creates a new nPartition. pardefault Displays or changes default values of certain nPartition attributes. parmodify Modifies an existing nPartition. parperm Configure partition configuration privilege for nPartitions and vPars. NOTE: This command is available only from the OA.
Glossary assignable resource The resources that a customer can designate to be assigned to a partition. Blade A board that contains CPUs, memory, slots for C-class mezzanine cards, and onboard NICs. A blade is the equivalent of a cell in terms of being the unit of assignment for defining nPartitions. complex A collection of blade enclosures and IOXs cabled together and under the control of a single active, monarch OA (ignoring OA failures).
Index A adding cpu to a partition, 80 attributes, 94 B boot processor, 80 booting one partition, 93 rebooting a partition, 98 C commands HP-UX shell commands setboot, 100 shutdown, 98 vparenv, 89 vparmodify, 94 vparstatus, 95, 98 CPU, 80 adding and removing, 80 boot processor, 80 resource path, 83 socket local processor, 82 creating a partition, 93 D creating, 93 example plan, 79 I/O, 85 minimal hardware configuration, 80 modifying attributes of, 94 names of, 79 obtaining information about, 95 removing,
vparenv, 89 vparmodify cpu, 80, 81, 82, 83 vparstatus, 95 110 Index
