HP Superdome 2 Partitioning Administrator Guide (5900-1801, August 2011)

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.
◦ All user supplied arguments to parcreate that are used to define an nPartition may be
used to create a parspec.
Creating an nPartition from a Partition specification
You can create an nPartition and assign resources using the parspec with the help of the following
commands:
• Use the following command to create an nPartition using PartitionSpec
parcreate -Z PartitionSpec
NOTE: The -Z option creates an nPartition from the PartitionSpec partition specification.
• The following command modifies the alternate parspec named PartitionSpec to add a
new blade in enclosure 1 slot 3 to the nPartition definition.
parmodify -Z PartitionSpec -a blade:1/3
Removing a Partition specification
Use the following command to remove a parspec:
parremove -Z PartitionSpec
Saving the current configuration of nPartition and switch to an alternate configuration
To save your current configuration and switch to an alternate configuration, complete the following
steps:
1. parmodify -p 1 -c Saved_Config
2. poweroff partition 1
3. parremove -p 1
4. parcreate -Z Alt_Config
Identifying Partition specification using the OA GUI
To view a partition's parspec name on the OA GUI:
1. Launch the OA GUI.
2. Select an nPartition.
3. Click Modify nPartition. Figure 3 (page 30) shows the window with the Partition Specification
Name.
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